Well, What Did You Think Would Happen?
www.theatlantic.com
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin but failed to make a deal.

I’m sure Trump got a mouth full though.

  • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.orgEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    Nothing new here, he’s a useless piece of shit, I’m quite shocked at how pathetic America’s response has been to this Nazi takeover.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 days ago

      This is it exactly.
      “Look at all our guns. Look at our battle ships. Ooh, look at our planes. Our movies are actually documentaries and we are all bad ass mother fuckers. No one dares take us on!!”
      In strolls an old racist reality TV ‘star’ that is such a failed ‘business’ man that he bankrupted many casinos with ties to Russia, who is a proven rapist AND ‘alleged’ child rapist that is the best friend of a paedo child sex trafficker …and he just takes over without much of a whimper.
      Christ, his boss putin was flown over and given the red carpet treatment and nothing of merit was done about it.

      “But but…What about the protests?”
      What about them? They’ve done fuck all. The obese imbecile is still strolling around ordering people to be kidnapped off the streets by his own brand version of the Gestapo.
      He doesn’t give one iota of a shit from his soiled and ruined underpants about your protest(s).
      No tyrants or dictators ever do.

      It seems the average american is so complacent and molly coddled that they don’t care as long as they aren’t the ones being targeted.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        7·
        2 days ago

        such a failed ‘business’ man that he bankrupted many casinos with ties to Russia

        People misunderstand what this was really about, and why he kept doing it. Those casinos allowed him to launder billions of dollars of Russian Mob money, and exploit the casinos into insolvency, and then just walk away, and stick everyone else with the bills.

        It’s not so much that he’s a bad businessman (although he is), he’s a CRIMINAL businessman, otherwise known as a Mobster.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      5·
      2 days ago

      Of course. Expect a lot of pro-Russia talk and policy in the near future. Also, Putin gave him orders to complain when he bombs Ukrainian hospitals and orphanages, but do nothing about it, so people won’t think he’s holding Trump’s leash. Because we’re all stupid, and can’t see what’s right in front of our faces.

  • DrSoap@lemmy.world
    59·
    3 days ago

    They totally didn’t talk about Ukraine. He insisted on privacy. The talks were “productive.” I feel like he just got more instructions.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    One thing I know about Trump is he’s weirdly obsessed with handshakes as symbols of power. Having your hand on top means you’re the dominant person, supposedly. Trump is very aggressive at making sure that’s him, because the belief is so strong for him. In this picture, Putin is absolutely the dominant person in Trump’s handshake belief.

    This doesn’t really matter, but I do think it’s interesting to notice.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    39·
    3 days ago

    It was clear from the start that only 1 person would benefit from this: Putin. At long last the Kremlin is not only on one level with the USA, it can even be perceived as being on top.

    Putin seemed to make clear that his demands regarding Ukraine haven’t changed. In his usual coded way, he said an agreement could be reached only once the “primary roots” of the conflict were “eliminated”—which means, basically, that Ukraine should be part of Russia. “We expect that Kyiv and European capitals will perceive that constructively and that they won’t throw a wrench in the works,” Putin said, in what sounded like a warning. “They will not make any backroom dealings to conduct provocations to torpedo the nascent progress.”

    The Monster And The Dumbass

  • thefluffiest@feddit.nl
    31·
    3 days ago

    Agent Krasnov got 2.5 hours of new instructions and was again reminded of who’s boss. Call that empty-handed!

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    I’m sure Putin put a few more bugs in the limo and he probably gave Donny a good back shot so trump didn’t leave totally empty handed.