Guys, the American school system has failed Donald Trump. Or that's what we can glean from Trump finally deciding to remain a part of NAFTA instead of pulling out.

Leaving NAFTA should have never been an option. President 45 courted voters with the promise of job creation and a stronger American economy, and to pull out of NAFTA would result in, well, the opposite of that. As explained by Justin Trudeau himself, "Disruption like cancelling NAFTA, even theoretically, eventually might lead to better outcomes, [but] would cause a lot of short-and-medium-term pain for a lot of families." And that obviously sucks.

It's nearly five months into Trump's presidency and most of us have become desensitized to his unique brand of elitist idiocy, but it was still shocking that, like a student trying to write a paper after only skimming the class syllabus, POTUS needed a Canadian ex-teacher to sit down and explain why abandoning a vital trade agreement would be, you know, bad. It's kind of the political equivalent of trying to show your racist, angry step-uncle how to post a status update on Facebook or how to order pizza online. It's the "mono = one, rail = rail" of political discourse.

Which tells me that Donald's ignorance may be a combination of many things, and not just a bottomless well of prejudice. Samantha Bee may have proposed that Trump was illiterate (and his tweets tell us she's absolutely right), but his limited understanding of the way international politics work implies something greater: maybe, despite his family's fixation on the best and most private, he and the American school system failed each other. Money can't buy intellect, or even an understanding of how to thread tweets.

Whatever your thoughts on Trudeau, there's something to be said for this obvious moment of generosity — that while on the phone with a 70something world leader, our prime minister took a breath and tapped into years of his own expertise. While no child had likely ever seemed so uninterested in learning the basics of anything ever, Trudeau still treated Trump as a troubled student he knew he could reach — that after hours of explaining why kiboshing NAFTA would lead to mass unemployment, Donald would understand.

This may never happen again as long as we're living, bless us everyone. Despite POTUS' seemingly unlimited hours for social media and Inauguration Day photo conspiracies, no other world leader will likely spare another moment to teach the fundamentals of decades-long treaties and alliances to the president of the USA. Not everyone can be Angela Merkel, explaining the Geneva Convention to the Orange One. Not everyone can be Trudeau, asking Trump why he never learned about NAFTA as a businessman, knowing full well Trump had already drifted off in the middle of DMing old Hillary memes to Breitbart. (Or so I'll assume.)

So we take this achievement not as a victory, but as a warning. Because the next time Trump betrays this kind of total ignorance (and heaven help us, he will), we can only hope that someone with some authority steps in to eclipse the memory of whichever high school teacher Donald Trump refused to listen to. And delivers the basic education POTUS clearly deprived himself of. At least before he speaks to Kim Jong-un.