I got hurt in New Jersey.com. That is the opaque, existential message currently featured on billboards on the New Jersey turnpike. When you go online to find what it means, it turns out to be a personal injury lawyer touting for business. But on the day I saw the ad, shortly after the gubernatorial elections of November 5, it read like a cri de cœur from the famously over-sharing forty-seventh president himself. Trump did get hurt in New Jersey, in the judgement of most political commentators, by Democratic woman Mikie Sherrill’s win in the state governor’s race, which, along with a similar result in neighbouring Virginia, signalled a big swing against the Republicans in states where they had made major gains in last year’s presidential elections.