Michael D'Antonio is author of the book "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" (St. Martin's Press). The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion articles on CNN.

(CNN) Rambling and often incoherent, President Trump made his UN press conference mainly about himself and not about defending his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. He raised the canard that "four or five women who got paid a lot of money" accused him of sexual harassment and implied that he could determine himself whether people accused had actually committed the acts. "I never saw them do anything wrong," he said of his friends Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly.

It was a presidential press conference as it would be performed by a comedian.

The President who bragged about abusing women on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape has reportedly taken command of the effort to push Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court despite allegations that, in his high school and college years, he too treated women abysmally.

The result, on display at the press conference, surely left many viewers aghast, while it may have played well with many in his base. There was Trump denying people had laughed at him during his recent the United Nations address (they did laugh at him) and calling a member of Congress from California "little Adam Schiff."

Trump dismissed the allegations against Kavanaugh as part of a "con job" perpetrated by the Democratic Party, referring to the Senate minority leader and his colleagues as "Schumer and the con artists." He said the Senate minority leader "and his buddies are in there laughing" at the Kavanaugh mess. Of course, no one is laughing about the allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when he was in prep school, attended parties where gang rapes occurred, and exposed himself to a classmate at Yale.

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