“President Trump is turning our foreign policy into an international joke, doing lasting damage to our country, without any rhyme or reason,” Senator Chuck Schumer said in a statement. “We need the president to be able to distinguish between our allies and adversaries, and to treat each accordingly. On issue after issue, he’s failed to do that. The president’s support for inviting Russia back into the G7, just after they meddled in the election to support his campaign, will leave millions of Americans with serious questions and suspicions.” Republican Senator Ben Sasse struck a similar note, saying, “This is weak. [Vladimir] Putin is not our friend and he is not the president’s buddy. He is a thug using Soviet-style aggression to wage a shadow war against America, and our leaders should act like it.”

Luckily for Trump, he won’t have to put up with anyone bitching at him about his ridiculous tariffs or suspiciously warm embrace of Russia for too long. He’s reportedly dropped out of a scheduled meeting with Macron and has announced that he’ll be leaving the summit a day early, in what we can only assume will be a major huff, so that he can hang out with a friendlier world leader: Kim Jong Un.

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Scott Pruitt does the chemical industry a solid

Scott Pruitt doesn’t just spend his time wasting taxpayer dollars on trips abroad, fancy pens, and sending his security detail to pick up his dry cleaning or hunt down his favorite moisturizer, even though the daily barrage of stories about his ethically bankrupt ways would suggest as much. On top of that, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator also finds time to dole out gifts to his industry pals at the expense of the planet and human health, the latest example being his decision, per The New York Times, to “scale back the way the federal government determines health and safety risks associated with the most dangerous chemicals on the market.”

Under a law passed by Congress during the final year of the Obama administration, the E.P.A. was required for the first time to evaluate hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals and determine if they should face new restrictions, or even be removed from the market. The chemicals include many in everyday use, such as dry-cleaning solvents, paint strippers, and substances used in health and beauty products like shampoos and cosmetics.