As the Trump-Pence White House crashes and burns around him, Donald Trump is facing his first foreign trip and boy howdy, does he not want to go.

In recent days, Mr. Trump has groused to several friends that he is not looking forward to leaving his new White House cocoon for high-profile, high-pressure meetings with dozens of world leaders in unfamiliar settings.

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A nine-day trip means nine days of being in countries that find him appalling and aren't going to be praising him in their morning television programs.