There were more than a few people okay, professional political observers, reporters, consultants, candidates and the like — who both expected Donald Trump to lose Monday's Iowa caucuses and for this outcome to leave the candidate all but unhinged once he took possession of a live microphone.
Only providence, it seemed, knew what might come out of his mouth about Iowa, Iowa voters or its caucus process if Iowans did not hand him the victory Trump seemed to generally feel that he deserved.
Steam might come out of Trump's ears.
That was pretty much the talk about what might happen if Trump did not win Iowa.
And it wasn't unfounded, given that Trump lashed out at Iowa voters when his poll numbers momentarily took a turn for the worse there.
He even retweeted someone who suggested Iowans had been brain-damaged by "too much Monsanto in the corn."