As the political world debates the latest claims and counterclaims in the Brett Kavanaugh saga—including an unironic plea from a former Hillary Clinton staffer to take “boofing” seriously because “small lies matter”—the crises of the world worsen. And President Trump is using one of them as a punch line.

His latest gag is a running joke about his torrid romance with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Trump loves the Hollywood telling: Old nemeses who have cast off their past hostility only to realize that, in the end, they have strong feelings of another kind for one another.