Thursday, October 15, 2026
Caption for the featured image at the top of this op/ed… Holding hands. A BBC News picture of Trump and Putin at the 2025 Alaska Summit. Giddy with anticipation, President Trump thinks to himself, “My god, his skin is sooo soft.”
Far be it from me to be spouting a conspiracy theory, but sometimes the only explanation for someone’s behavior is one for which you don’t have any hard proof – other than that it makes perfectly good sense.