Well, that went well. We’re talking about President Donald J. Trump’s press conference with the latest hapless foreign leader caught in the crosshairs of his love-hate relationship with the press. Really, it almost doesn’t matter who it is. That it happened to be the president of Finland — land of the properly raked forests — held a certain irony, particularly after Sauli Ninistö turned out to be the sly one, telling Trump to keep America’s “great democracy” going.
Read MoreStuck in the middle with you: President Donald J. Trump greets Finnish President Sauli Nanistö in happier times, Aug. 28, 2017. Photograph by Natig Sharifov.