Trump always returns to his folly. And his Republican acolytes always return to him | Richard Wolffe

Trump's visit to the US Capitol - where the Republicans he almost got killed three years ago fawned over him - would be funny if it weren't pathetic

Anyone can rat, as Winston Churchill once supposedly said. But it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Say what you like about Donald Trump, but there's no shortage of rodent-like ingenuity around his dealings with the sewer life that populates today's Republican party.

Richard Wolffe is a Guardian US columnist