WASHINGTON — The president of the United States spoke for an hour on Thursday at the White House, a careening open-mic act that was by turns free-associative whirlwind, grievance fest, group shout-out and profane rant against his expanding inventory of political enemies — or, as he called them, “the crookedest, most dishonest, dirty people I have ever seen.”

“Let the healing begin” this was not.

Even by the standards of this most abnormal presidency, this was something. “You have to understand, we first went through Russia, Russia, Russia — it was all bullshit,” President Trump said on live television in the classical splendor of the East Room, referring to the special counsel’s investigation. He went on to call impeachment a “hoax” perpetrated by “dirty cops” and “leakers and liars” that began “from the day we came down the elevator” and “never really stopped.” (He presumably meant the escalator he rode at Trump Tower in 2015, when he announced he was running for president.)

The angry pep rally came a few hours after Mr. Trump served up a similar outburst at the National Prayer Breakfast. In between, Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a morning news conference and said that Mr. Trump had seemed “a little sedated” Tuesday night at his State of the Union speech (the one she tore to shreds). And in Iowa, there was continuing chaos as Tom Perez, the embattled chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called on the state Democratic Party to “immediately begin a recanvass” of its caucuses, which Mr. Trump had already called an “unmitigated disaster” — a statement that drew a rare measure of bipartisan agreement.

At this point, “not normal” feels a lot more like a permanent State of the Union. These first six weeks of 2020 have already made for an extraordinary year, and not in an uplifting way.