Even for Donald Trump, who in his short time in office has managed to attack a TV host over her alleged face-lift; share classified Israeli intelligence with Russian officials; threaten to pull NBC News off the air over coverage he didn’t like; feud with the mayor of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico; say that he was “absolutely” considering breaking up the Ninth Circuit for ruling against him; endorse an accused child molester for public office; and accuse Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones, Wednesday was a day that at least one publication has honored with the distinction of “the darkest day of Trump’s presidency.” On the heels of a pair of reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post that Trump has been dropping hints that the infamous Access Hollywood tape is fake, the president of the United States:

And that was all before 10 A.M.! From there, it was off to Missouri to talk tax cuts, and if you thought the president was suddenly going to pull it together in order to cogently make the case for what he’s hoping will be his party’s single legislative achievement, you thought wrong. In St. Charles, Trump, naturally, kicked things off by telling the crowd, “We have already made tremendous progress, far greater than I would have thought. I will tell you that in a non-braggadocious way. There has never been a 10-month president that has accomplished what we have accomplished—that I can tell you.” From there, he claimed that a tax plan that estimates show could save him and his heirs $1 billion will cost him “a fortune.” “I think my accountants are going crazy right now,” he said. “It’s all right. Hey, look, I’m president. I don’t care. I don’t care anymore.”

Oh, and all those corporate C.E.O.s who are about to see their tax rate chopped to 20 percent, the savings of which they’ve said, repeatedly, will go to shareholders and not workers? Well Trump doesn’t like them, mostly because they, like all the other ingrates out there, don’t thank him enough. “I’m driving up their stock. They’re making a fortune. Then, they go to their board and say what a great job they’re doing, but what am I gonna do?,” he ranted. “And many of them, honestly, I don't like. Some of these bankers, I don’t like them and they’re making a fortune. It’s one of those things . . . Steve [Mnuchin] knows a couple of them that I’m talking about. They say what a great job they do . . . right now anybody can do their job because we’re making it easy for them.”

But, wait, you say, was there a random non sequitur about Kim Jong Un? Sure was!

ISIS?

A seemingly racist impression of Asians?

A shout-out to his hotel in D.C., in which he retains his financial stake?

And what would a tax-reform speech be without a rant about the war on Christmas? “You don't see ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore . . . you go to the department stores and you see ‘Happy New Year’ and you see red and you see snow. You don't see ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore,” the president concluded, perhaps inspired by the backdrop. “With Trump as your president, we are going to be celebrating ‘Merry Christmas’ again, and it’s going to be done with a big, beautiful tax cut. Thank you, everybody. God bless you.”