CNN’s Chris Cillizza carefully analyzes Donald Trump’s ‘bonkers theory on how to win the war in Ukraine’ because jokes are hard, apparently

But if he did, he’d root for the aching side. Because we can’t help but laugh at him.

This is only the latest in a long series of reasons:

According to audio obtained by The Washington Post, Trump told a group of Republican donors in New Orleans that the United States should paint Chinese flags on its F-22 planes and then use those planes to bomb Russia.

“And then we say, ‘China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it,’ and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch,” Trump concluded.

Uh, what?

The naivete here is massive. (And that’s just the start of the problem.) Does Trump really think that that the Russians would be so easily fooled? That painting a Chinese flag on our airplanes is a significant enough ruse to fool the Russians?