Trump’s World

Pass the popcorn. Just when the world thinks that it has Donald Trump’s measure, the man manages to make dictators, commentators, and the rest of humanity spit out their collective coffee — yet again.

In the long list of the outlandish and outrageous of which the 47th president is the author, snatching Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from his bed while he enjoyed a few hours of well-deserved rest after a day’s autocratic labor, might well justify a category of its own.

Illegal? Perhaps.

Disastrous? Time will tell.

Meanwhile, the weekend raid was — to adopt a British tabloidism — just plain Caracas.

In one fell swoop, the theater-loving Trump got his own Bin Laden moment, complete with guns-blazing special forces action to be endlessly retold at rallies down the line.

He simultaneously reset the politics of America’s Near Abroad, checked Iran, Russia, and China in the global game of geopolitics — and then elected himself the boss of the Great State of Venezuela.

Totally overshadowed in Saturday’s regime change effort was the small matter of Friday’s tweet all but saying that Trump was backing regime change efforts in Iran.