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He was not the physical manifestation of the Trinity, he was the physical manifestation of one person of the Trinity, namely, God the Son.

That's not what scripture says...

1Ti 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

So if you are correct, the Holy Spirit as well as the Father each could have physical manifestations...And you call it what???

Gnostic Docetist

You guys are a trip...I'm a Gnostic Docetist because I believe what the scripture says...But the scripture does NOT say that God the Son was manifest in the flesh...It says God was manifest in the flesh...But what the hey, that's only scripture...

Clearly that text (which the RSV -- NOT a Catholic translation -- begins "Great is the mystery of our religion, which I got crawled for quoting the other day") is known to us. We say The Son is God; The Son is not the Trinity. So, with that understanding, the text does not contradict what I said.

So if you are correct, the Holy Spirit as well as the Father each could have physical manifestations...And you call it what???

Not at all. It is not the 'job' of the Father or of the Spirit to be incarnate. It's not necessary. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, which was the point of the thing. So no need for another manifestation.