The first scandal-fueled resignation of the Donald Trump regime took less than a month, and it was a big one. National security adviser and conspiracy-theory buff Michael Flynn resigned yesterday after reports surfaced that he not only engaged in illicit communications with Russia regarding sanctions before the Trump administration had actually taken power, but also then lied about the nature of those conversations to several people in the administration, including Vice President Pence, which made him susceptible to Russian blackmail.

For those who have been troubled by the Trumpian approach to foreign policy (also known as "scream into the phone now, ask questions never, defer any actual decision-making to Steve Bannon"), this might have come as some good news. Flynn, after all, is a guy who trafficked in conspiracy theories (such as the United Nations is trying to create a world church where Christianity is prohibited), and who everyone suspected was somehow compromised by Russia. But here's the important thing to remember: This doesn't mean U.S. foreign policy is going to get any better now.

Nothing sums up the Trump administration's dysfunction more than what happened this past weekend, when Trump and Prime Minister Abe of Japan were having dinner at Mar-a-Lago after North Korea conducted a ballistic-missile test. Did the Trump team retire to a secure location to deal with how best to respond? Nope. They worked things out right in front of a dining room full of rich people and treated them to dinner and live music. Not only do we have a careless administration that is failing to treat matters of national security with their due gravity, we also have those people answering to a guy who was probably disappointed the "nuclear football" wasn't an actual football.

That show seemed to be a parody of The West Wing, with the general premise being "What if all the characters were unqualified for their jobs?" And as if that weren't bad enough, Trump reportedly used his phone's flashlight to read some documents in front of everyone. Now, I know what you're thinking. "Guys, what's the big deal? I use my phone's flashlight all the time." Well, the big deal is your phone's flashlight is also your camera's flash, which means anything you point it at, you're also pointing a camera at. And so while your phone's flashlight is perfect for finding that great pair of sweatpants that somehow disappeared under your bed months ago, it's not a great idea for our president to LITERALLY point an Internet-connected camera at national-security documents. It's just lucky for us that there aren't any foreign governments that want to use hacking to destabilize America, because that would be bad.

And if all of that weren't bad enough, Trump likes his policy-option papers to be one page long, filled with mostly bullet points and images. Don't worry about how a policy option that can lead to war can be condensed into a one-pager, though. This is a guy who was able to get José Canseco and Richard Hatch from Survivor to work together, so I'm sure we're all in very good hands, albeit tiny ones.

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