“For more than a
year now, Washington politicos and world leaders have been conducting a vast
experiment in child psychology: How do you sway an American president who has
the attention span, self-discipline, and self-awareness, of a child? Two
primary strategies have emerged.
The dominant
strategy among world leaders has been gaudy flattery. Foreign governments have
exploited Trump’s tendency to conflate the way they treat him with the way they
treat the United States…Washington politicos, however, can’t dazzle Trump with
exotic splendor. Instead, many have pursued a different strategy: Appearances
on television"