Trump is golfing, picking quarrels with Republicans, aiming gibes at black football players and sportscasters, challenging the Secretary of State to an IQ test competition, evading federal responsibilities for natural disaster recovery, and has next to no support in Congress for his incoherent agenda on trade.


If Trudeau shows up, smiles and shakes hands with the increasingly detached figurehead POTUS, and sticks to discussion of trade issues with whatever adults are sitting on the American side of the table, things should be fine.