Implicit in President Trump’s decision to give restrained, stick-to-the-script performances on select occasions is the admission there is a time and a place for less restrained performances. That seems obvious — former President Barack Obama didn’t sing or call Kanye West a “jackass” during any of his State of the Union addresses — but it’s an interesting acknowledgment from Trump, who uses the presidential Twitter account to dole out demeaning (though often hilarious) nicknames to detractors, tweet in all capital letters with reckless abandon, lob personal attacks at television hosts, and refer to Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man.” And that’s just on social media.

Trump’s advisors constantly defend such conduct by arguing the country elected him to be a fighter, to break the chains of decorum and political correctness and lead with a refreshing sense of authenticity. It’s no big deal, in other words.