Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side. Except that there was no audience. The debate was held in an empty hall. No one went crazy, as Mr. Trump put it, because no one was there.
It happens so often these days that it no longer even generates much attention. He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical.
With Mr. Biden out, Mr. Trump, at 78, is now the oldest major party nominee for president in history and would be the oldest president ever if he wins and finishes another term at 82.
A review of Mr. Trump's rallies, interviews, statements and social media posts finds signs of change since he first took the political stage in 2015. He has always been discursive and has often been untethered to truth, but with the passage of time his speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past.
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