They Should Have Wished Him Happy Birthday

It was his birthday, so it was an opportunity for the Western World to engage in diplomacy. Forget that Valdimir Putin had an hour-long talk with Donald Trump. It is the Western World that should have been lining up to get on Trump's good side. 

Trump has a strained relationship with the democracies of the Western World. If it were a marriage, you would say it is an estranged marriage.

So, this was an opportunity. Try to woo him back to the fold. I do not know how many European leaders reached out to him -- how many wished him happy birthday -- but it they didn't, they passed up a good opportunity.