The Ballroom Beneath the Rubble

Trump sanctions Russia, sues himself, and bulldozes the East Wing to build his own Winter Palace, all before my pain meds wore off.

Good morning! The NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, came to Washington hoping to keep Ukraine on life support and left looking like a man who’d just tried to reason with a blender. The media, ever eager to grade Trump on a curve that starts somewhere below sea level, declared the meeting a success because no one was physically assaulted. Meanwhile, th…