It’s a quiet Sunday night of a holiday weekend and the incoming leader of the free world is melting down on Twitter. What to do? Feel alarmed, dig down for the transition period to end and hope all these habits disappear? Or accept that a good number of voters who knew the impulsive Donald Trump disregards the truth chose him anyway, so we now live in a fact-free America?

Alas, Trumpism is a chaotic torrent of vexing choices.

Like his views on his real popular vote loss and Jill Stein’s also real -- yet ludicrous -- Wisconsin recount demand, Trump’s tweeted fake claims of voter fraud on Nov. 8 are as bewildering as his “Apprentice”-style Cabinet secretary casting call. Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, made a tour of the Sunday shows to eviscerate former Gov. Mitt Romney, who is under consideration for secretary of state -- we think. But “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough, who tweeted criticism of her comments throughout Sunday afternoon and evening, reported Monday morning that Conway had sounded off without permission from the boss. Scarborough, who has made it clear he talks to Trump constantly, reported the staff was “baffled” and the president-elect was “furious.” During the show, Conway reportedly texted Scarborough to call his version “false” and “sexist.”

Trump earned himself four Pinocchios from the Washington Post fact-checker Sunday night when he insisted in one tweet he would have won the popular vote if millions of illegal ballots had not been cast. In another tweet that followed (Melania clearly goes to bed too early) Trump declared (without offering evidence):

Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this? Serious bias - big problem! November 28, 2016

Does he knowingly tweet lies or does he believe fake conspiracy news he finds on the Internet? Pick one, but both are disturbing.

Is Trump actually “furious” with Conway for going over his head to attack Romney, or is it all sanctioned and part of Romney’s death by a thousand public cuts? After all, numerous other Trump surrogates, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Rep. Chris Collins, have made the case against him in far worse terms in recent days. So who is Trump throwing under the bus, Conway or Romney? Pick one, but both are troubling.

There’s more than a good chance Trump is giving Romney the schoolyard beating he’s wanted to, carried out in slow motion with the whole school watching. But how can we know for sure? If he passes on the 2012 GOP nominee, having successfully humiliated him, we will know he chose to humiliate Conway as well.

Trump doesn’t view false tweets, or acts of sabotage against prospective and current employees -- let alone leaders or staffers or voters he may need support from during his administration -- as irresponsible or embarrassing to him. If he did, he wouldn’t do it ... we think.

David Gergen, who has worked for several U.S. presidents, noted his shock at watching Conway “sandbag” Romney, tweeting:

First, KellyAnne Conway sandbags Romney. Never saw a staff person publicly try to kill key appt. Y wd he ever accept now? @CNN — David Gergen (@David_Gergen) November 28, 2016

That’s something for other qualified candidates to consider; many may watch this process and make a run for the hills. Gergen thinks Romney should.

Governing, like his hiring practices, could become another Trump spectacle. News reports indicated he was engaging strangers at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving about whom he should hire for the secretary of state job and even Gingrich compared the process to “The Apprentice,” telling the Wall Street Journal the process encourages “audience participation.”

The selection of a Cabinet is a monumental task that will shape Trump’s ability to solve the problems he promised to address, both here and abroad. But the circus-like atmosphere he has created doesn’t bode well for the seriousness of his next crucial task: creating the appropriate and critical separation between his business interests and his contrasting responsibility to the nation as president.

Indeed, tweeting lies to create a firestorm may have been Trump’s plan on Sunday. He succeeded in sending the media down another rabbit hole so no one would discuss his staggering conflicts of interest that the New York Times had outlined in a lengthy story that very day.

It’s all Vintage Trump. As supporters search for Presidential Trump, or at least Transition Trump, they may have to accept that it’s also as imaginary as those millions of illegal votes that cost Trump a popular vote victory.