When we last checked in on Donald Trump’s campaign it was still a rolling embarrassment—a near-daily parade of pettiness, ignorance, and farce that was nonetheless en route to an ever-increasing delegate lead.

Trump had held an unusual QVC-style postelection press conference in which he displayed phony “Trump products” in order to pretend that his failed businesses hadn’t failed; he’d announced that he would serve as his own primary adviser on foreign policy “because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things”; and his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was forcefully denying eyewitness claims that, after a Trump presser, he’d manhandled Michelle Fields, then a reporter for Breitbart News.