President Donald Trump is in Singapore to make peace with North Korea after failing to make peace with Canada. In another series of events that could only happen in this era, Trump deep-sixed the G-7 by inviting Russia back in to be number eight. And that was just for openers. Trump left early and then refused to sign the allies’ joint statement in an angry tweetstorm that seemed to turn Justin Trudeau into a sparring partner ahead of Trump’s main event with Kim Jong Un. Other than that, the weekend was pretty chill. David Frum on how the G-7 turned allied democracies into something worse than frenemies. “Like some nightmare family Thanksgiving from which the most difficult relative departs first, everybody breathed easier when the president at last left. Perhaps after all, it was sort of a success? Then, something happened.”

+ NYT: “If a president of the United States were to sketch out a secret, detailed plan to break up the Atlantic alliance, that plan would bear a striking resemblance to Trump’s behavior.”

+ CNBC’s John Harwood: “Vladimir Putin tried to help Donald Trump win the presidency. As president, Trump is helping Putin achieve a top strategic goal. And the question is: Why?”

+ How newspapers around the world reacted to the unusual G-7.

+ It’s “not only a characterologically accurate collective self-appraisal—the gangster fronting, the casual misogyny, the insupportable confidence—but it is also perfectly Rorschachian.” The Atlantic: A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: We’re America, Bitch.