Trump validates dictators, because he likes dictators.
It's that simple. It's going to happen.
I'd worry about this sounding all smoking-gun mashed potatoes conspiracy theory, but we've literally seen this happen before.
When Dennis Rodman was going to North Korea we all told jokes about hahahaha wouldn't it be wild if Dennis Rodman were actually doing N Korean foreign policy.
This reality is significantly worse.
He hasn't learned anything new since then.
Even the request is so amazingly alienating.
You don't get to think he should be the leader of a country and still get taken seriously. You just don't.