Over the weekend, good old President Trump (he must have been in office for at least what, two, three years now?) turned up the hyperbole another notch. A furious pre-dawn Saturday morning tweet fired off from his weekend getaway in Palm Beach read “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

Allowing the tweet to speak for itself, as it certainly does, the only insight worth recycling in regards to this new Trump story was the one made by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne that, “Trump has a problem either way. If he was not wiretapped, he invented a spectacularly false charge. And if a court ordered some sort of surveillance of him, on what grounds did it do so?”

The media, already sensing a Trump-tailspin since Attorney General Sessions recused himself from any investigation into the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia, leaped on the story and constantly re-ran the clip of White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling Martha Raddatz that “if this is true” it would be a scandal of epic proportions. Yeah, alright — big if.

Also, there was a new travel/Muslim ban announced on Monday sans Iraq and the abrupt implementation of the old one — but for some reason the whole wiretapping story still seemed more interesting to most people. Looks like Trump no longer controls the agenda of the news cycle.

At this point 43% of Republicans are now in favor of a special prosecutor investigating the Trump-Russia connection.

Suffice it to say, the President really stepped in it this time. Even by his own standards.