One of the most surreal moments of Friday’s Oval Office showdown between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine came at the very end. After all the shouting and the saber-rattling and the lecturing and the pleading and the politicking had ceased,

The world leaders were meeting to finalize an agreement that would allow the U.S. to continue funding Ukraine in its war against Russia but the encounter devolved into "great television" instead.