Trump welcomes Putin to Alaska and every other European leader to Washington.

Plus, will he succeed in ending vote by mail? We'll discuss all. Trump welcomes Putin to Alaska and every other European leader to Washington.

Plus, will he succeed in ending vote by mail?

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined as always by the right.

Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the sage of authenticity woods.

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So extraordinary couple days, Jim Garrity with high stakes Ukrainian diplomacy with Donald Trump at the center of it.

And just one observation, maybe not the most important one, is just how extraordinarily dominant Trump is and how incredibly energetic.

I mean, he's made this whole thing happen.

He's made much of the world, not all of it.

You know, China and Russia are exceptions.

We'll get to that in a minute.

But a lot of the world just totally accept his rules for how you deal with him. So it's not just that you have Zelensky show up in a suit, which I think he should have done

the first time around and kind of having a jocular attitude and sort of playing along the way I think

he should have done the first time around. You have all these European leaders on almost no notice.

Trump meets with Putin and Alaska, then immediately gets on the phone with all of them and says,

could you please show up in Washington like in 24 hours or 36 hours or whatever it is?

They're all, yes, sir.

And they all go there and they're sitting around the Oval Office desk like school children.

He gets referred to them by their first names.

They have to call them Mr. President.

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