There he was, the president of the United States, greeting the three American hostages who had just stepped back on U.S. soil after being released by North Korea, and President Donald Trump couldn’t help himself. “It’s very early in the morning,” he noted to reporters. “I think you probably broke the all-time-in-history television rating for 3 o’clock in the morning.” Of course, he did. The freed hostages, who had spent from one to three years in labor camps, must have felt like they had landed on Pluto.