How much nicer is her headline and lede than something I’d write after the same events?  It is such a higher tone to resist making a reference to his famous “concept of a plan”, “alternative truth” and “fake news witch hunt!”.

or, as someone with far less class than the ever classy NY Times (me) would style it:

Incompetent dictator aspirant, following fascist playbook, relies on empty spectacle to obscure lack of governing skills and nefarious antisocial agenda.

Trump rolls out red carpet on US soil, and applauds, for spymaster, kleptocrat, political assassin, kidnapper of 20,000 Ukrainian children, orderer of mass graves for civilians, multifaceted war criminal, his idol, his Excellency, the President of Russia.

vs.

Which headline takes us closer to the challenging truth we need to grasp, before we are among the enemies being rounded up?