Trump gets played as world leaders he admires see through his theatrics

And this whole show of force, the military parade, the heavy-handed ICE raids, the crackdown on protests, it's all adapted from the playbooks of the foreign leaders Trump has long admired. Strong men like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and even Benjamin Netanyahu. Leaders who Trump has gone out of his way to publicly praise and align himself with.At times, he even fawns over them. It's creepy sometimes. He defends them when most other world leaders are not, when they certainly don't deserve to be defended.And ...