In his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, President Trump detonated a metaphorical nuclear bomb on U.S. interests.

And the radioactive nature of Trump’s performance takes on added poison in the context of Trump’s Sunday description of European allies as “foes.” If Trump was willing to describe allies in that way, he had to come into the Putin meeting with resolution to challenge the modern czar’s abundant adversarial conduct against the United States.

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