I do agree with BILL_C (post # 83) that much of it is damage control. Look, this clown speaks as if he had been an outsider the past 9 years who had had nothing whatever to do with anything that has transpired since 1992! That to me is the most amazing thing about this speech. The message is "I wasn't there!"
And that, I think, is quite revealing. This halfwitted hillbilly is posing as an independent commentator on the state of the world and America's place in it.
The bragging, the excuses, the flamboyance, the Little Richard of American politics without Little Richard's humour, talent and decency (with sincere apologies to the distinguished Mr Richard Penniman.)