He described the Russia probe as “all bullshit” and took aim at favorite targets from James Comey and Nancy Pelosi (a “horrible person”) to the two FBI agents caught by their anti-Trump texts.

And he paid tribute to the House members and senators who rallied to his defense.

“Today is the day to celebrate these great warriors,” he said, warning his partisan audience to be ready for future impeachment threats.

His unleashed fury suggests a reelection campaign strategy that will paint him as the victim of an attempted coup, mobilizing his base’s anger against opponents as he barrels toward November’s election.

“Not just portraying him as victim but an ad hominem campaign,” said Rich Galen, a veteran Republican strategist.

“He’s on a roll. All the numbers are good. There’s a lot of good stuff he can run on, but he can’t stop himself belittling his opponents.”

It dashes hopes that the end of the impeachment trial might have meant the end to a bitterly divisive period in politics. And he set the stage for a campaign to take back control of the House through a backlash against the “impeachment hoax.”

This week, senior administration officials talked up an “optimistic” State of the Union address and described forward-looking plans for bipartisan efforts for infrastructure investment and healthcare reform.

“He wants to work with Democrats,” said one official, “if they’ll let him.”

Matt Schlapp, who chairs the American Conservative Union and who was singled out for praise in the speech, said Trump’s approach bore the hallmark of honesty for a man who had been under investigation from Day One of his presidency.

“I’m sure he got lots of advice that he should take the high road, look forward, not to the past, but the man doesn’t operate that way,” Schlapp said. “As he said probably five or six times, he wants to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

Trump said that if impeachment “happened once, it can happen again,” suggesting that Democrats would try to impeach him crossing the street the wrong way.

“Because if they find that I happen to walk across the street and maybe go against the light or something, let’s impeach him,” he said. “So we’ll probably have to do it again because these people have gone stone-cold crazy. But I’ve beaten them all my life, and I’ll beat them again if I have to.”

The East Room appearance struck a very different tone than the State of the Union address two days earlier, which focused on his achievements.

He closed Thursday by offering an apology to his family for having to endure a “phony, rotten deal.”

“We’ve all been through a lot together, and we probably deserve that hand for all of us because it’s been a very unfair situation,” the president said,