Ok now Trump is pissed off. He thought he and Volodya were buddies. Of course he did: being both vain and stupid made it inevitable.

Trump did not develop a new fondness for Ukraine or its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. He did not abruptly become a believer in the traditional transatlantic alliances prized by his predecessors as a counterweight to Moscow. Rather, Trump got insulted.

By ignoring Trump’s pleas to end the war and instead ratcheting up the fighting, Putin has made Trump look like the junior partner in the relationship. The Russian leader has “really overplayed his hand,” one of the officials told me. “The president has given him chance after chance, but enough is enough.”

Yeah! Pretty soon he’s just another fella around here!

Trump and Putin have spoken a half dozen times in the past six months, and Trump has grown steadily more frustrated, the four people told me. He told advisers this spring that he was beginning to think Putin didn’t want the war to end, an assessment that U.S. intelligence agencies reached more than a year ago.

Bahahahahahahaha oh god that’s like a punchline to a very stale joke. “Why Adolf, I’m beginning to think you don’t like Jews. Why Niagara River, I’m beginning to think you have a slight drop-off here. Why Arizona, I’m beginning to think you have a bit of a ditch north of Flagstaff.”

When Trump recently intensified his calls for a cease-fire—at one point writing on social media, “Vladimir, STOP!”—Putin chose to defy him by escalating attacks on Ukraine yet again.

You astonish me. How could Putin ignore something as official and heartfelt as “Vladimir, STOP!” on social media?

With Putin continuing to ignore his pleas for a deal, Trump has felt humiliated, fearing that he appears weak

YA THINK???

“I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done. And then I hang up and say, ‘That was a nice phone call,’ and the missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office today, referring to Putin. “And then after that happens three or four times, you say the talk doesn’t mean anything.”

Oh come on now, mustn’t be hasty. Make it twenty times. Make it fifty. Show them how generous and patient you really are.