President Trump recently compared the Russo-Ukrainian war to a quarrel between children in a playground. “Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy,” he said. “They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled, sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while.”

The comparison is obscenely inappropriate, of course — reducing Russia’s genocidal aggression to “fighting like crazy” and Ukrainian resistance to complicity in the fisticuffs. To get a sense of how profoundly disturbing the comparison is, apply it to Hitler’s “fight” with Europe’s Jews.

That said, it’s obviously pointless to accuse Trump of historical ignorance or moral obtuseness. Both features define his core of advisors — a cynical analyst might even suggest this is part of their job description.

What is less obvious is the fact that the comparison is spot-on with respect to Trump’s relations with his newfound frenemy Elon Musk.

The Trump-Musk breakup was predictable. The White House isn’t big enough........

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