As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything.

We should resist the impulse of many of Trump’s supporters to instantaneously proclaim him one of the greatest statesmen to ever occupy the White House and the most deserving recipient of the next Nobel Peace Prize, just as we should resist the opposite impulse of many of Trump’s detractors to condemn him outright for shaking hands with a bloody tyrant at a meeting that delivers nothing for the former and only legitimises the latter.