New York Times: “President Trump’s disastrous performance since his news conference alongside Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has sent West Wing morale to its lowest level since the Charlottesville fiasco almost a year ago.”

“‘People are just depressed,’ said one Republican close to the White House. ‘Nobody wants to take on the public heat of resigning right now, but there are a bunch of people who were thinking maybe they’d leave after the midterms who are very seriously starting to consider accelerating their timetable.’”

The Hill: “Rank-and-file intelligence and national security officials feel demoralized by the president’s failure to publicly call out Putin for interfering in the 2016 election, according to sources inside and outside the federal government.”

Playbook: “The Washington parlor game about when John Kelly will actually leave the White House could not be more irrelevant. He’s already gone. Whether he has a hard pass or not is irrelevant. The president equated Putin’s word to the word of his director of national intelligence. He met with Putin with no one besides an interpreter. He allowed his press secretary to go out in public and leave open the possibility that they might ship a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow back into the arms of Mother Russia. Clearly the chief of staff has no ability to rein in his boss or effectively manage up.”

Playbook: “We have had a lot of unconventional weeks since Donald Trump took office in January 2017. But we are closing what might be one of the most humiliating weeks in Trump’s presidency — one that left his supporters cringing and worried for the future of the country.”

New York Times: “But intentionally or not, Mr. Trump was set on testing the limits of his ability to move on without consequences.”

“He took the extraordinary and risky move of inviting Mr. Putin to Washington. Discussions for a meeting in the fall were already underway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said on Twitter.”

”Mr. Trump was deploying a familiar tactic: barreling into the next news cycle by supplying the next bit of incendiary programming.”