“The Russian hoax is finally dead,” President Trump declared on Thursday night, at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “The collusion delusion is over.” Trump, though, was not over it, and he was definitely not moving on. Four days had passed since his Attorney General, William Barr, released a four-page summary of Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s Russia ties. In it, Barr announced that Mueller “did not establish” a conspiracy with Russia and had declined to proceed with an obstruction case against Trump (although he did not “exonerate” him, either). The President has not been content with merely claiming vindication, however. He seems determined to keep talking and talking about it, which was exactly what he did on Thursday night.

In his first appearance before a crowd since Barr’s summary dropped like a bomb, last weekend, Trump blamed Democrats, “the deep state,” “and the fake news media, right back there”—pointing to the rear of the packed arena—for what he called “a crazy attempt . . . to overturn the results of the 2016 election.” The President recast a lengthy investigation overseen by his own Justice Department as “nothing more than a sinister effort to undermine our historic election victory and to sabotage the will of the American people.” It was “an elaborate hoax,” he said, and “a plan by those who lost the election to try to illegally regain power.” In short, he said, “It was the single greatest hoax in the history of politics in our country.”

Trump was speaking at the site of his final rally of the 2016 election. He loves nothing more than to revisit that night, when his upset victory would not have happened without narrow wins in the upper Midwest. Arguably, this has been his single best week since that victory; Barr’s summary has dispelled the question mark that has hung over Trump’s win since the beginning of Mueller’s investigation. The good news, however, was hardly reflected at the rally, where Trump did not seem so much a vindicated President as a vengeful one, whose political calculus involved none of the reaching out to disaffected voters that more conventional politicians might attempt at such a moment—especially in a key battleground state like Michigan, where Trump’s poll ratings have plummeted since 2016.

What’s been remarkable, this week, is how much Trump triumphant has sounded like Trump at every other point in his Presidency: angry and victimized; undisciplined and often incoherent; predictable in his unpredictability; vain and insecure; prone to lies, exaggeration, and to undercutting even those who seek to serve him. Sure, he appears relieved, but the Barr letter, with its welcome news for Trump, did not come with magic fairy dust that could suddenly transform the seventy-two-year-old President into someone else entirely. The new Time cover shows Trump under an umbrella, smiling in the rain, with the headline “The Trump Reboot,” but that misses the point. There is no reboot, no Trump 2.0—nor will there be. Even without the existential peril to his Presidency that Mueller posed, Trump is still Trump, the same as he ever was.

Before his rally on Thursday, Trump had made eight public appearances after Barr released his summary of Mueller’s findings, most of them short responses to shouted questions from reporters and one long interview with his favorite Fox News host, Sean Hannity. I went back and listened to all of them. There was no new Trump, no moving on. What was striking was how little celebration there was from the President, although he did talk a few times about the “beautiful” outcome. The same was true for Trump’s always-active Twitter feed, which combined the usual fevered mix of insta-punditry, peremptory demands (The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries must “increase the flow of Oil… Thank you!”), and score-settling (“the Fake News Media is going Crazy!”) that has become familiar, if no more Presidential, by now. The main news of Trump’s post-Mueller week, in fact, was the undercutting of his own party, another Trump trademark, as his Administration decided to support a court ruling that would eliminate the Affordable Care Act. Trump declared a new slogan for Republicans as “the Party of great health care,” although G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill view the issue as a political loser that cost the Party control of the House last fall.

Trump appears to have been freed from the fear of impeachment and removal from office, but he remains the public figure he has always been: a weird combination of perpetual victim and perpetual bully, whose one constant is to remain on the attack. In case the President’s plan wasn’t already abundantly clear, on Thursday morning he tweeted out a Fox commentary segment: “Now is the time for President Trump to Counter Punch.” And counterpunch he did. The closest thing to an overture to Democrats in his rally on Thursday night was when he called on the Party “to decide whether they will continue defrauding the public with this ridiculous bullshit . . . or whether they will apologize to the American people” and work with Trump on priorities like fixing “broken trade deals” and building a wall on the southern border. As political overtures go, it wasn’t much of one.

In the immediate aftermath of the release of Barr’s letter, some of Trump’s Republican supporters called on him to be magnanimous in victory. Or, at least, they hoped he would move on, perhaps recalling the politically astute course followed by the Clinton Administration, in 1999, after Republicans failed to convict Bill Clinton in a Senate trial and the President, though privately fuming, publicly heeded his advisers’ counsel to make the White House a “gloat-free zone.” As anyone who’s been watching Trump for the last few years could have told you, that was not going to happen.

In fact, Trump seems to be getting more exercised about the whole ordeal the further away he gets from his initial relief that it appeared to be over. His interview with Hannity was particularly revealing. He complained about a long list of enemies, from “dirty cops” to John Brennan, the former C.I.A. director and one of Trump’s toughest public critics, whom the President said was “a sick person.” He continued to simply ignore or mischaracterize Barr’s statement that the special counsel did not “exonerate” the President on obstruction of justice, and proclaimed himself, in fact, “the most innocent human being.”

In one particularly revealing exchange, Hannity asked Trump why he was still bringing up his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, and her deleted e-mails, reminding the President that back on Election Night he had told his followers that he was prepared to move on. “Do you still feel that way today?” Hannity asked. “No, not really,” Trump said. Later, he elaborated, “I said, you know, let’s get back on; let’s not think about the past; let’s think about the future. But now I think thinking about the past is just O.K., because we can never let this happen again in our country or to another President. . . . We can never allow these treasonous acts to happen to another President. This was an attempted takeover of our government, of our country, an illegal takeover.”