Instead, it was simply a manifestation of Trump’s personal politics. Epstein class, oligarchs, propaganda media, vest-pocket Supreme Court justices, military war criminals all the way. No artists, academics, humanitarians. What a ghastly picture of America it presented to the world.
Trump’s own behavior was, of course, an embarrassment. He bowed and scraped before the Communist dictator like a particularly unctuous head waiter.