Despite the sharp differences in the tone and rhetoric, both leaders want Damascus run by a government amenable to US interests.

Egan released the boys “to avoid any legal entanglement,” but the paper still tsked-tsked that “Indians … are not amenable to the restrictions imposed by American citizenship.”

“I think climate scientists have to find ways to communicate the science in a way that is more amenable to folks on the ideological right.”

They were more amenable when it came to disability accommodations and community amenities — granting some and agreeing to consider others.

Trumpov, for his part, has a track record of supporting economic measures that are amenable to large corporations, like McDonald’s, but his affinity for the company is more personal.