It's raining in Palm Beach this week.

Inside Mar-a-Lago, Donald John Trump sits in a gold-accented chair, engaging in the chaotic management style of a retirement home resident managing a dwindling trust fund. While the rain hits the windows, the administration takes wild swings to distract from the silence in the Department of Justice.

Trump threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase over an old grievance, planned an executive order to mandate an exclusive broadcast window for the Army-Navy Game, and hit eight NATO allies with 10% tariffs for supporting democracy for Greenland. These are not the actions of a global hegemon. They are the flailings of a man terrified of the upload bar on a government server.

On Saturday, while the American President focused on television ratings and personal litigation, the Chinese President secured the gl ...