Trump’s diplomatic ‘theatrics’

The unanticipated floor show at Mar-a-Lago this weekend — captured by a Bostonian and club member who posted it all on his Facebook page — raises questions about the president’s seriousness on issues demanding a certain level of security.

Let’s not forget Donald Trump was the guy who encouraged those “Lock her up” chants about Hillary Clinton and her emails at his own campaign rallies.

The Trump administration now insists there was nothing “classified” discussed in the open — despite the sudden intrusion in the dining room by a scrum of staff and advisers, who huddled around the president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the evening of yet another North Korean missile test. But some briefing papers were indeed being read in public by the flashlight of an aide’s cellphone (surely that wasn’t the dessert menu).

It was at best an unseemly display, but one that no doubt left fellow diners believing their $200,000 club membership fees were surely now money well spent. Trump’s love of the spotlight is well-documented. But he owes the nation a little more discretion even at the “Winter White House.”