The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is a longstanding tradition during which presidential candidates take a break from the heated campaigns, tell some jokes (often self-deprecating) and say a few nice things about each other. But everything this year is different.

+ I’m sick of writing about Trump and you’re sick of reading about him. But I’ve put in my 10,000 hours on the topic and I finally figured it all out as I watched him bomb horribly at the Alfred E. Smith dinner; where he became the first presidential candidate (and the second and the third) in the event’s history to get booed. There he was. Trump in the room with NYC’s elite, finally at their level, and he goes full Donald and somehow shocks everyone on the downside. And I finally understood. So here’s my Trump Theory of Everything. Trust me, this one is good.