The red carpet treatment in China is going to rattle WH nerves.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

Watch: Putin, Modi and other world leaders in China for summit

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c5y310qngqpo

They're all becoming partners while Trump has alienated the world. Was this what MAGA was going for?

[hlthe2b]

1. It is such a strange feeling and position that for Trump to be held to account, we all have to

suffer as well... But that doesn't keep me from wanting the former. A bit masochistic, I guess, but I will be watching this summit and what results with interest.

[Marcuse]

2. I grok that feeling. A functional democracy gets the government it deserves until it doesn't.

[GoCubsGo]

3. I wonder if this has anything to do with his media absence.

Not to mention that creepy Q-Anon shit he posted on Truth Sinkhole earlier today. It has to be killing him that he doesn't get to hang out with so many of his favorite strongmen. I'm sure he's feeling left out, and pouting over it, along with everything else that isn't going his way right now, including his rotting away before our very eyes. How much of this absence is his declining health, and how much of it is just a big, giant, days-long man-baby snit?

[bluedigger]

4. Were US troops available to perform the honor?

Or did they have yardwork that day?