Donald Trump just appeared with a leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Because why not.

So, how did Trump respond? He spent the early part of Wednesday afternoon appearing via webcam on the “Alex Jones Radio Show,” which basically amounted to flipping the bird to all those establishment Republicans hoping he’ll straighten out or fall by the wayside.

Seriously.

By appearing on Jones’s show, Trump sent a clear message to everyone who says he has veered too far outside the mainstream: He. Does. Not. Care.

As it turned out, the Jones-Trump combo produced (relatively) few outlandish moments. The most bizarre was probably this string of claims by Jones:

“I routinely talk to the top generals, special forces, Pentagon currently, out of the Pentagon, CIA, as I know you do, and we’ll just leave it at that,” he said. “There are a lot of people in this government and also retired who don’t want to destroy the country. The really know that we’ve reached the crossroads where the country’s done, it’s a third-world nation within a few more years. Forget Donald Trump; in four years, if this happens, we’re done. I mean, we’re talking about resurrection of the dead here.”

Trump nodded and added the occasional “right” throughout.

At another point, Trump claimed to have predicted the danger of Osama bin Laden and called for the government to “take him out” in his 2000 book, “The America We Deserve.”

“I said, we better be careful with Osama bin Laden,” he told Jones. “There’s a guy named Osama bin Laden, nobody really knew who he was, but he was nasty. He was saying really nasty things about our country and what he wants to do to it. And I wrote in the book — 2000, two years before the World Trade Center came down — I talked about Osama bin Laden. You better take him out. I said he’s going to crawl under a rock. You better take him out. And now people are seeing that, they’re saying Trump predicted Osama bin Landen, which actually is true.”

On the Trump-o-meter of exaggerations, this one barely registers. But the reality is Trump didn’t really need to say much of anything on Jones’s show.

The simple fact that he appeared with Jones in the first place said plenty.