Is all this fanfare really necessary to welcome a foreign leader, especially one from BRICS+ and CSTO? Trump has literally never done this for anyone. People freak out that he pulled a chair for Netanyahu, but all this theater to receive Putin is grandly unecessary.

He is celebrating it like Putin is his ally. Meanwhile Zelensky is seething in a Skype call with EU leaders doing a suicide watch.

Unforgivable.