Picking a day, a week or an event when Donald Trump’s White House may have reached its nadir is impossible. There have been so many of those moments and there will inevitably be many more.
Canadians have understandably been deeply concerned by the Trump presidency’s abortive plan to prevent 3M from sending three million high-quality N95 face masks to Ontario from its plant in China.
Far worse than that, in the raw geopolitical scheme, has been a fiasco that has just played out over six days in Washington and the western Pacific.
It culminated in a letter of resignation from Thomas Modly, the acting secretary of the navy, after he called the highly-decorated captain of a frontline U.S.