If you’re familiar with the plot to The Producers, here it is in a nutshell: Two guys purposely produce the worst Broadway show in history, designed to open and close in one night, so they can make off with the money that the backers put up and get rich.
That had to be more or less Trump’s plan when he got into the presidential race: he just didn’t count on idiots who would actually vote for him. So in a last-ditch effort to end this farce, he accepted Sarah Palin’s endorsement today (that always results in defeat).