Trump eternally baits adversaries into lashing out, justifying his own paranoid and belligerent worldview. Carney offered him an out without caving on anything of substance and preserving the red lines he was elected to defend. A very promising start to tough negotiations. 4/4

He offered broad but amorphous concessions on defence and trade — areas we need to do vastly better on regardless of this crisis. That was a master class other world statesmen and women should emulate. The profound shift in tone and tenor alone warrants highest marks. 3/4

🇨🇦 PM stuck to the playbook as a leader must. As per profiling: never speak over a malignant narcissist. Never interrupt or ambush. Effuse and flatter. He firmly rejected annexation or acquiescence, reiterating the Canadian people’s near unanimous rejection of this option. 2/4