Friend, 

See the big news out of Russia this morning? Looks like Putin is heading over to North Korea to have a good ol’ fashioned bull session with his old buddy Kim Jong Un. Of course they’ll scheme about Ukraine. But we can’t help but think someone else would dearly love to join them at that table.

Yeah, even though 34 felonies generally makes it hard to travel internationally, you know Trump would be there if he could. And what a contrast!

You’ve got President Biden holding the democratic world together. And Trump’s closest buddies are Putin, Kim, and Viktor Orban.

Trump’s admiration for Putin is legendary. Of course, the guy helped him get elected, so he owes him bigly. And on the other side of the table, there’s the guy that Trump just couldn’t wait to meet after he took office. “Little Rocket Man!” A man after Trump’s own heart. A man willing to destroy his own country just to preserve his massive ego. Of course they’re two peas in a very diseased pod.

The bottom line is Trump’s no better than these two. In fact, he wants to be more like them.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. He’s a wannabe dictator. He’d love to be spending his Tuesday sitting at a table in North Korea with these two, showing off his “negotiation tactics.”

But we think Judge Merchan might frown on it as, you know, he’s waiting to be sentenced. For 34 felonies. Sorry, Donnie, you’re gonna have to wait to go hang out with your fellow criminal besties.

Criminals. Dictators. That’s who Convicted Felon Donald Trump surrounds himself with. And yes, we’ll judge a man by the company he keeps. In this case? You know we aren’t wrong.

Trump’s dictatorial aspirations aside, we still have elections here. In November, we can make sure we never have a dictator (or a criminal) in the Oval Office. Help us protect democracy >>

-The Lincoln Project