But if there’s one silver lining here, it’s that the Zelensky meeting was not a smooth display of competence on Trump’s part. The spectacle of Trump and his lackeys shouting threats and demands at an earnest little guy whose country is being invaded and destroyed was not a P.R. coup for the administration. It displayed an instinctive, overly aggressive, ham-handed approach — the attitude of a bunch of people drunk on their own power, feeling untouchable enough to have a little fun pushing a foreign leader around on live TV.