Donald Trump is declaring that he has fired John Bolton as national security adviser. Bolton is saying he offered to resign. It’s par for the course for the Trump administration where no one really gets to leave on their own terms. How long before Bolton writes his own tell-all? Or did he sign an NDA?

Trump, who views staffing his administration as a kind of casting call, was never comfortable with Bolton’s ‘I am the Walrus’ mustache but after tiring of H.R.