Did you watch this last night? Watch this:

A few thoughts below.

What the hell? Trump giving Pence the permission to speak, speaking right over him again and again, answering questions intended for Pence—it's almost as if Trump can't believe he has to be on TV and yet doesn't get to answer every single question, so he just goes ahead and answers every single question.

If you haven't read that piece in The New Yorker that Matt linked to earlier, go do that.

It's a profile of Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal, Trump's hit book from the 1980s. I tweeted this screen grab from the story last night:

There are many more terrifying passages throughout. Find your own horror and tweet it!

Relevant to the 60 Minutes interview, Schwartz has a few things to say about Trump's attention span:

"It’s impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then...” Schwartz trailed off, shaking his head in amazement. He regards Trump’s inability to concentrate as alarming in a Presidential candidate.

And contrary to other reports that Ivana saw Trump reading from a book of Hitler's speeches, Schwartz doesn't believe Trump has read a book ever in his adult life.

Schwartz believes that Trump’s short attention span has left him with “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.” He said, “That’s why he so prefers TV as his first news source—information comes in easily digestible sound bites.” He added, “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.” During the eighteen months that he observed Trump, Schwartz said, he never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment.

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer points out that "this attitude [about books] is not shared by most U.S. Presidents, including Barack Obama, a habitual consumer of current books, and George W. Bush, who reportedly engaged in a fiercely competitive book-reading contest with his political adviser Karl Rove."

It's perverse that a book of all things that established Trump's reputation. Schwartz says he wrote The Art of the Deal because he needed the money, but now he regrets it—and he can't take it back. He says he gave the world a false impression of Trump, which is the impression Trump still dines out on, the impression The Apprentice was built around, the impression that this presidential campaign is based upon ("I'm the guy who can make deals!").

The former editor of New York magazine, Edward Kosner, Schwartz's erstwhile boss, says, "Tony created Trump. He's Dr. Frankenstein."