Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a third guy - initials VZ, has a beard, kind of heroic - who might need to be part of these "negotiations"? Assuming this isn't dictation instead... Trump says he and Putin have agreed to begin ‘negotiations’ on ending Ukraine war (courtesy AP)

After giving roughly zero sh*ts about the Kennedy Center last time around, this is the threat to Western culture that requires His Orangeness to take over. They're entertaining at a brunch, not something dangerous like eradicating personal data security or twisted like building condos in Gaza...

Heather Cox Richardson: "The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs... and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing."

We cannot stand for this.