Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit the White House Tuesday for the first time in four years. When he stood next to President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden back in 2013, relations were already in a downward spiral — today, they are even worse. Erdogan will likely find little solace in President Trump.

Any Turkish optimism about Trump’s election was probably misplaced. The belief that he could pay by proxy the incoming national security adviser to switch sides and no one would notice was amateurish and naïve.