“I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense that we got along great.”
That was President Trump’s rating — with 10 being the highest possible score, in case you were wondering — of his tete-a-tete with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last Friday. Trump explained why he gave the meeting a perfect score: “It’s good when, you know, two big powers get along, especially when they’re nuclear powers.”
Because Trump sat down with Fox’s Sean Hannity — whose interview style with Trump can be described as hard-hitting only if a marshmallow dropping on a down pillow can also be described as hard-hitting — we didn’t get much of a follow-up, never mind a simple, “Why do you say that?”
Trump seems to think — or wants people to think — that all that stands between the world and a nuclear confl