The joint was really jumpin' in Charlevoix on Friday and Saturday, and not in a good way. Donald Drumpf arrived late and left early, insulted our allies, including with hostile body language that said he'd rather be anywhere than there, and threw a tantrum after he left.
In between, Angela Merkel trolled him with a photo that made him look like a toddler who wouldn't use his potty chair.
Before we run and hide under the bed in anticipation of Singapore, here are a few of our own thoughts.
Re Trump's attack on Justin Trudeau: Remember that everything Trump says is projection. So accusing Trudeau of being "weak" is a telling move. Only somebody whose arguments — like his character — are as feeble as Trump's would do everything he could to avoid our allies and then bluster at them in cowardly tweets when they were no longer face-to-face. (P.S. Justin didn't say anything in his post-summit press conference that he hadn't already said to Trump in person.)
Also re Trump's attack on Trudeau: Trump is already in a deep, deep hole with women voters. This is going to drive him deeper — not just because Trudeau is young and handsome but because he's a feminist.
If a "gaffe" is defined as "accidentally telling the truth," we must report that Fox News has described the Singapore confab as a first-time meeting "between the two dictators."
Finally, a chilling reminder of where we're at, from our day trip to Hyde Park yesterday:
In a special exhibit of posters from World War II, the FDR Presidential museum was running the first chapter of Frank Capra's award-winning documentary, "Why We Fight." Capra pointed out that in each of the Axis countries — Germany, Italy and Japan — dictators rose to power in part because their respective legislatures abrogated their responsibility to serve as a check on executive aggression. As we've said before, November can't come soon enough. We cats HISS.
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