How about the optics of this? From the emailed daily press guidance from the White House:
Yep, the only thing on popular vote loser Donald Trump's schedule today is a meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister and Vladimir Putin's top diplomat. AP notes that the meeting would "signal that the two countries have improved ties that Trump recently described as being at an 'all-time low.'" (Trump's grasp of history being somewhat weak. Insert tiny hands joke.)
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