Trump is frantically flailing as he struggles to force-feed the narrative. He has become a caricature, reviled globally, distrusted universally, and all he does is put forth false and hyperbolic claims in a desperate attempt to convey grandiosity while warding off increasingly frequent humiliations. In fairness to him, he is a malignant narcissist, with deep underlying insecurities, progressive cognitive decline, a miniscule vocabulary, an inability to pivot, very little patience, below average intelligence, with a transactional sensibility requiring instant gratification, nobody he can fully trust, with an inability to admit imperfection or fault, with a lifetime of secrets and lies he must protect against exposure, and polls that are so underwater that they threaten turning everything he is, was, or claimed to be - into a collapsing House of Cards. So, he's understandably upset.