Trump’s Tucker Carlson segment was bizarre and boring at the same time | Richard Wolffe

Trump wanted to distract from the Republican debate. But the slobbering snoozefest interview was low-energy'

Scientists recently revealed that they revived a worm that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago. This was obviously a totally unnecessary and reckless exercise.

Because barely a month later Tucker Carlson would revive the semi-frozen carcass of an ex-president from the Twitter permafrost that is now weirdly known as X. Anyone who has watched a Jeff Goldblum movie knows how badly these experiments can turn out.

Richard Wolffe is a Guardian US columnist