It's this kind of stuff - today's edition

The Very Stable Genius's rallies are, even more than his tweets, the mode of expression by which we get the most unvarnished version of his "message," such as it is. You can always count on a hefty dose of bombast, incoherent word salads, and language that requires making kids leave the room.

But it's been a while since he went on the kind of tear we saw last evening in Great Falls, Montana.

Where to start? How about with his utterly unnecessary - well, as we'll see, most of his remarks were utterly unnecessary - mockery of the Peggy Noonan-penned phrase signature slogan of the George H.W. Bush administration?

“Thousand points of light. What does that mean? I know one thing. Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one. What the hell is that?”

How about doubling down on his enthusiasm for the Foxconn deal in Wisconsin, a deal based on tax credits the cost of which is going to outweigh any benefit?

And what was up with choosing Elton John, of all celebrities, as the performer with whom to compare crowd size in the obligatory boast about that topic? (Maybe Elton was fresh on his mind given what he sent Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang with - more about that shortly.) And that business about "hopefully the brain is attached to the mouth"?

Or in reference to what was this statement? "It's a rigged deal, folks, it's a rigged deal. I used to say it.  It's a rigged deal. It's a disgrace." It seemed untethered to anything on either side of it. And the insertion of the sentence "I used to say it" right into the middle of that particular outburst. Is there any significance to it?

And what was the point of bringing up Elizabeth Warren and taunting her about taking a DNA test? ("I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test so that it shows you're an Indian.") Also another example of grammatical sloppiness. Will he give the million dollars to her or to the charity?

Then there's the remark about the first responders who took the grandstander off the Statue of Liberty. ("I wouldn't have done it. I would have said, 'Let's get some nets.'")

And juxtapose these two:

"Putin's fine. He's fine. We're all fine. We're all people."

with how Europe . . .

". . . kills us with NATO and then [Germany] goes and makes an oil and gas deal with Russia. So they want us to go and protect them against Russia yet they pay billions for Russian oil and gas and we're the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing."

Okay, so that's a bit - certainly not all the eye-poppers, but several of them - about the rally.

Then there's Pompeo's trip to Pyongyang, which is already going to be a challenge, given intelligence that's come to light since the Kim-Trump summit about continued missile-and-nuke activity.

But you have to wonder how Pompeo feels about this little assignment:

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea on Thursday for denuclearization talks and brought two gifts for leader Kim Jong-un. 

One is a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and the other an Elton John CD with his song "Rocket Man."

Sources in Washington said the gifts reflect Trump's expectations that Kim will follow through on the pledges in an agreement the two signed at their summit.

One diplomatic source in Washington said, "The 'Rocket Man' CD was the subject of discussion during Trump's lunch with Kim. Kim mentioned that Trump referred to him as 'rocket man' when tensions ran high last year" after a series of nuclear tests and missile launches by the North. "Trump then asked Kim if he knew the song and Kim said no."

Has our intelligence apparatus determined that Kim will react as a good sport? Conversely, what is the chance he'll take great offense?

I can't think of any one-word characterization of this presidency more apt than "bizarre."

Just flat-out bizarre.