“I like that about him a lot, actually.’’Trump may be “president non grata” nearly everywhere else, as The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker has written. The Australians showed the ahistorical president a video to stress that they had fought alongside America in every major war for the last 100 years. (This may have given Trump the idea to show Kim Jong-un an inspirational video.) “I told the president I was a rubbish golfer,” Morrison said, with a wide smile, describing the 12-minute call. Both craft their political identities with dog whistles around the issue of protecting their countries from hordes of migrants.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2018 18:30 UTC