Why Donald Trump ended up praising Hollywood’s most famous cannibal

When Donald Trump is not reading the teleprompter, it’s hard to know what you’re going to get. Perhaps you’ll get the standard angry riffs about the things Trump has been saying he is angry about for the past nine years. Perhaps you’ll get an anecdote about how a big, strong man came up to Trump, tears in his eyes, and thanked the former president — “Sir, thank you!” — for what he did on whatever issue Trump had just talked about.