Donald Trump Monday decried protests against police violence as “race riots.”

“Now, somebody said, ‘Don’t call them race riots,’” he told the crowd in Colorado, in painting an image of a racially divided nation under President Barack Obama. “But that’s what they are, they’re race riots.”

In a typical election year, this might have merited a whole news cycle on its own. But this is only the latest in a week of disastrous news coverage for the Republican nominee.

ThinkProgress editor in chief Judd Legum called it “one of the worst weeks in political history.”

Mo Elleithee, a Democratic strategist and head of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, told the Washington Post that “political operatives and strategists are going to study this week for generations as the textbook case of self-sabotage.”

New York Magazine, MSNBC, RealClearPolitics and even Fox News have all punctuated this week as one of Trump’s most ridiculous.

Trump’s comments on “race riots” come after a week in which the candidate attempted to spur more controversies over Bill Clinton’s infidelities, started yet another online feud, this time with a former Miss Universe, and seemingly spun out of control on the campaign stage while delivering a straightforward statement responding to a bad story, spiraling into angry and near-incoherent tirades about Hillary Clinton.

This week has also seen some of the most damning reports about Trump’s financial records and personal dealings to date, with reports that his personal charitable foundation spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle personal legal disputes and more evidence that his tax returns could hold a massive bombshell.

It’s unclear whether the negativity has stuck to Trump — the polls have stayed relatively consistent, with Clinton in a slight lead. But this isn’t the first time I have written about a Trump meltdown, and it likely won’t be the last — a clear representation of his temperament and mode of operation.

TL;DR: Trump had a crazy week

To recap:

In short, it was quite a week.

Meanwhile here's Trump mocking Clinton at a rally tonight in PA. pic.twitter.com/JNrKOqORVR — Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 2, 2016

This isn’t the first time I’ve written this story. That says something.

This past week has begun to feel similar to the week after the Republican National Convention, when Trump revived his bizarre accusation that Ted Cruz’s father might’ve been involved in killing JFK, suggested offhand that the US shouldn’t honor its NATO commitments, and began the also ill-advised attack against Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the bereaved parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan.

To close watchers of the election, that meltdown was at least somewhat surprising. After all, in the weeks leading up to the GOP convention, it seemed like Trump’s campaign was going to rein him in. And for a while, so was the expectation leading up to the first presidential debate: It was Trump’s chance to prove he could reach the very low bar of seeming presidential. Trump hasn’t had a press conference in nearly two weeks, after all.

But just as that didn’t last the last time, it didn’t last this time.

And as Vox’s Ezra Klein explained in April, Trump has too long a history of being Trump to ever make a concrete shift toward being presidential:

Donald Trump has been powering a global brand by doing and saying outrageous things for decades now. He has built up an immunity to outrage and backlash. This personal fortitude is why Trump was able to take his wealth and turn it into personal, persistent celebrity. This deep — and continually rewarded — belief that flamboyance pays off is why Trump says what other presidential candidates won't and does what other presidential candidates can't. It's why he can retweet white supremacists and play insult comic on the stump and encourage violence at his rallies and shrug off the brickbats of the Republican, Democratic, media, and cultural establishments. Most human beings could not stand the assault on their reputation, the abandonment by friends and business partners, the opprobrium of the media. But Trump can, because Trump has been this person, existing amidst constant controversy and ignoring the side eyes of the elites who think him gauche, for decades now.

Remember that moment in the first presidential debate when Trump gave an angered speech about how good his temperament is. Yeah. That’s what we’re talking about.