Donald Trump wants us to believe he can go on for ever, in almost every sense. His White House team briefed the media ahead of this year’s State of the Union that his speech might last two hours or more – though in the end he managed a mere hour and 47 minutes, still the longest address in USA’s history.

But the President would also like us to believe that he’s eyeing up staying in office for a third or even fourth term, even though doing so is barred by the Constitution and rendered unlikely by his advanced years. Trump, at 79, is already the oldest man to be elected president, and despite his protestations otherwise, is clearly showing his age.

That didn’t stop Trump quipping during his speech on Tuesday night that this should already be his third term – a typical bit of goading that neatly manages to imply, falsely, that Trump “really” won the 2020 election, and that he should be capable of ignoring or rewriting the Constitution to stay in office, because he’s just so great.

Trump is trying to show us that he still has the juice. The problem for the President was that the more of his speech that you watched, the less that this seemed to be the case. By this point,........

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