I wasn’t fully convinced before that Putin has Trump in his pocket, but after that stunt, I am convinced that he is under Putin’s thumb. Trump and co. could have had marching orders from Putin to do exactly that. Also, this is something that Putin have done and would do, publicly humiliating someone on live TV.
I thought that was exactly the case, because it’s obvious it is. If the majority of people don’t understand that, well, perhaps the majority of people are intellectually-disabled.