Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.
If, someday, #USAnians look around and wonder what happened to their national status and prestige in the world, they will have an unusually clear transition point to look at.
Today will be looked back on as the day the rest of the world stopped even pretending to believe Americans' "we are the shining city on the hill, an example to the world" credo had the slightest bit of truth left to it.
Embarrassing. Shameful.
I've heard it called "The Oval Office Ambush".