Hot as a pistol baby
One weird little tidbit from yesterday’s picnic in Alaska:
The Russian leader’s transparent manipulation of the US president and Trump’s credulity will worry Ukraine. On Fox, Trump said Putin praised his second term, saying the US was “as hot as a pistol” and he had previously thought the US was “dead.”
Putin also publicly reinforced Trump’s talking point that the invasion three years ago would “never have happened” if he had been president. “I’m quite sure that it would indeed be so. I can confirm that,” said Putin.
And we all know that Putin would never lie about anything.
Trump told Fox’s Sean Hannity that he was “so happy” to hear validation from Putin and also that the Russian leader had reinforced another one of his false claims, telling him that “you can’t have a great democracy with mail-in voting.” That a US president would take such testimony at face value from a totalitarian strongman is mind-boggling — even more so in the light of US intelligence agency assessments that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win.
Also Putin told Trump that he Trump is the smartest and handsomest man on the planet, so yaboosucks to all the naysayers.
Putin is stronger, smarter, and more competent than Trump. He is laughing, I have no doubt, at how easy Trump is to control. I for one am looking forward to our new Russian masters. (Not)
iknklst: Disagree. Putin has drug his country into a disastrous war, has killed the Russian economy, is engaged in Stalinist purges of his allies, etc etc. He’s not a dementia victim but by no means is he all that. Trump is just THAT clueless.
Oh, I agree with you, Brian M. But I do think Putin is smarter and more capable; he is also just as narcissistic as Trump, and that is a huge problem. i have known a number of intelligent narcissists, and they often end up in difficult spots because they won’t listen to anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
Putin is waaaaaaay smarter than Trump.
Putin is KGB. Trump is more KFC.