One thing you can say about the presidency of Donald Trump is that it’s seldom boring. Just this week we’ve had the spectacle of the U.S. president fawning over a tyrant from Russia the way a kid at a hockey game might gawk goggle-eyed at Connor McDavid or Nathan MacKinnon, followed by a mad dash across the Atlantic as the elected heads of Europe rushed desperately to Washington in hopes of stopping Trump from unilaterally announcing any new bad ideas before they could get there to dissuade him.