In the future, when scholars look back on this time to pinpoint the moment in Donald Trumps third run for the White House, the moment that will be most perplexing, the moment when they will realize that something tripped the flux capacitor and everything went haywire, will be the impromptu dance party that was pitched as a campaign Q&A session.

What was billed as a town-hall-style event Monday in Oaks, Pennsylvania, turned into a good ol hoedown, if a hoedown starred a suited man wearing orange bronzer doing a double-handed, off-beat two step in which he didnt actually move his feet.

Lets not do any more questions, Trump said before tripping the light fantastic. Lets just listen to music. Lets make into a music [sic]. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?

And Trump wasnt wrong. No one wanted to hear questions, not when they had the sweet, sweet sounds of Rufus Wainwrights cover of Hallelujah and Sinead OConnors Nothing Compares to U cued up and ready to go. Let me tell you, nothing gets the party started like OConnor singing, I went to the doctor and guess what he told me ...

I have two small kids, so Im fully schooled in the art of impromptu dance breaks. In fact, Im a bit of a dance break leader in this house. I will call them out when I see that the kids are overwhelmed. I will cue up music on my phone and yell out Dance break! in the middle of a fight between them. So its important to understand my qualifications when I say that this was no dance break that Ive ever witnessed. This was a broken dance. This was the dance of a man who has lost his way. This was the fumble of a presidential candidate who has proven himself to be untouchable.

It wouldve been great if this were the dance of demise. You know, the dancing you do when there is nothing left to do but dance. But something tells me this is a victory dance, an end zone touchdown dance, a celebratory wiggle-shuffle of the victor, and we are the only ones who dont realize that the game is over and the tune hes playing is not for us.

Because this race shouldnt be close. The polls shouldnt be tight. The optics should be really clear at this point as the competition for who gets to have the nuclear codes is between a former district attorney, who served in the Senate and who understands the three parts of government and how they work, going against an orange-tinted run-over cheerleading boot. And then he danced. For nearly 40 minutes.

Thats 40 minutes. Twenty minutes short of an hour. No dance party that doesnt include children and the duck dance should ever go on for 10 minutes longer than a half-hour.

And this wasnt a playful moment between the possible next president and his admirers, This was about as awkward as N.W.As greatest hits coming over the speaker during your childs baptismal. Clearly Trump has lost his way. At one point, in the grossly uncomfortable display at chill normalness (you know, the thing folks do when they are trying to act chill but its actually creepy), South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was moderating the event, joined Trump in doing rainbow hands (think simultaneously moving your hands in the arc of a rainbow) and just know that The Temptations have nothing to worry about.

This is absolutely insane, Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief at MeidasTouch, tweeted. Trump just froze up answering questions, said he wouldnt take anymore questions, then stood on stage for the next 30 minutes while music played. Will media cover this as something other than a seriously bizarre cognitive episode???

And I do think this is a fair question given the way President Joe Biden was treated during his mishaps on the campaign trail before he was forced to step down. Just imagine for a second that your boss called a meeting and in the middle of the meeting just said that the meeting was over and but forced everyone to stay and listen to his playlist that included such gems as Ave Maria, which is a phenomenal song, but its hardly the kind of song that gets the party started.

And so now we wait as everyone weighs in on the bizarre antics of a truly bizarre man who has been vile since he rode the Trump Tower escalator down to a thin press gathering to announce his first run for the White House way back in 2015. And its been eye-opening that what may actually end his hopes for a second presidency wasnt recent reports that he sent coronavirus testing devices to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic or the threat to deploy U.S. military against civilians it will be the dance party.

I guess this is what Gloria Estefan meant when she sang, The rhythm [or lack thereof] is going to get you.