Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday said in a Rumble video that former President Trump only praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to “play” them. “You call out a leader. You embarrass him, an ego-maniacal kind of person, whether it's Putin, whether it's Kim Jong Un [...] You call them out on a world stage and you embarrass them, what do you think is going to happen?” Trump Jr. said. If that were true, then he was assuming that they were as shallow as he is. I don't buy it. If that were true, then Donald Trump would not have also been undermining the position of the United States such as his abandonment of the Kurds and his criticism of NATO.