Let’s see if we can tie this together: While our president and his administration put Latino children in cages, held their parents in new-age concentration camps, and demanded that our Congress “build the wall,” he also joked with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, praised Saudi Arabia’s MBS and legitimized North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
This latest tour de force was all in the same week.
First Trump and Putin joked in front of cameras about interfering in our election and about “fake news.” This is the same Russian president who ordered our election hacked and co-opted.
Then President Trump praised his “great friend of mine,” the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who Trump said is doing “a spectacular job.” Where, we wonder, in that spectacular job did the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi fit in?
Then our disaster-in-chief crossed the DMZ for a handshake and photo-op with North Korea’s Kim – the same dictator who is still testing short-range missiles that terrorize countries that are our allies, had his relatives killed and routinely imprisons and starves thousands of his own people.