Trump's Bogus War

Donald Trump "postponed" his summer trip to London for fear of meeting with large-scale protests in a city whose mayor he has obsessively attacked in tweets. Angry protesters and exasperated world leaders await him in Hamburg this weekend. On Thursday in Warsaw, though, he found the kind of audience he craves: a Western head of state who nodded appreciatively as he attacked CNN and NBC.

Then, addressing a bussed-in crowd, Trump outlined his menacing vision of a clash of civilizations: "The fundamental question of our time," he said, "is whether the West has the will to survive." This is certainly a question that Trump’s own actions have repeatedly provoked. Trump went on to ask whether "we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?"