The funnier and somewhat more likely possibility is that he's actively psychotic right now (perhaps due to dementia!) and about to issue some comically insane (and perhaps tragically insane, alas) order tomorrow that really rubs in how little he knows up from down at this point.
The funniest possible afternoon for America is Trump delivering his statement while pacing the roof of the White House like a caged animal
I think his cabinet is physically incapable of invoking the 25th Amendment, because they’d kill each other over who gets to run what.
I suggest this book might be a useful read right now for understanding how the top tier of authoritarian regimes work... suspiciously, its page on the Princeton UP site seems to be unavailable:
Always this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin:...
And "Red Monarch" (1983) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoLS...