We want our President to be ready for the 3 am phone call. Donald Trump is already up at 3 am, firing off vicious, venomous tweets. Attacking a beauty pageant winner, of all things. 

Which raises the prospect that in one of the debates he could become the first presidential candidate to have a total mental and emotional breakdown on national TV. Maybe like the guy in “Network.” He could start throwing things. Or storm off the stage. Or punch somebody.

It’s must-watch TV.

Hand it to Team Clinton. Their assiduous research and obsessive debate prep enabled Hillary to get under Trump’s thin skin like no Republican did. She threw him off message early by suggesting he got where he is because he inherited his father’s fortune. 

Trump couldn’t let that go because his ego, though it towers over his phallic Trump Towers, seems as fragile as a Caribbean village in a Category 5 hurricane. 

Given Trump’s debate behavior and his wee-hours tweet storm, you can’t blame people for wondering if he has a drug habit. It’s like your parents said: not much good happens at 3 am.

(All in all, it was a bad week for the legalize-drugs lobby. Gary Johnson continued to give all pot users a bad name.)

Trump cannot let any criticism pass without viciously counterpunching. To him, this election is all about him. He could care less about the American people. They exist to admire and applaud him. If they don’t, he attacks them.

What will he do in a town hall debate when Jane Doe asks him a tough question? Call her a “fat, stupid pig”?

The epic irony is that Trump said Monday night his best quality is his “temperament.” He then proceeded to show how temperamentally unfit he is. 

Which put the media spotlight back on himself, just like when he attacked the Kahn family after the Democratic convention. 

He immediately fell in the polls, thereby reinforcing my Universal Theory of the 2016 Race: if you lead the news, you lose.