There were 11 candidates on stage on Wednesday night at the Republican presidential debate but, as usual, the only one you couldn’t take your eyes off was Donald Trump. Regardless of your thoughts about the intellectual seriousness of Trump as a presidential candidate, that he is a magnetic television presence is so undeniable you often forget anyone else is on stage at all.

The CNN director tended to frame shots so that, when other candidates were talking, we could still enjoy another of his fantastic reactions. This went to preposterous lengths. When Rand Paul or Chris Christie—the two people farthest away from Trump on the stage—spoke, the director would somehow squeeze six people into his shot so he could fit in Trump.

Purely as entertainment, the beginning of the debate was possibly his finest moment. Apropos of nothing, asked an unrelated question, he looked over at Paul and said that he shouldn’t even be on the stage. Seconds later, he said “I never attacked him on his looks, and believe me, there’s plenty of subject matter right there.”