What a fucking disgrace-- great job, GOP traitors and assholes!
Only two big shots showed up to this party: convicted felon Donald J. Trump, the wannabe dictator who occupies the Oval Office, and the indicted international war criminal Vladimir S. Putin, President-for-Life of the Russian Federation.
To call yesterday’s meeting in Alaska a “summit” stretches credulity. Let’s call it what it really was: a photo op. The President of the United States gave Putin the consummate photo op to recycle on Russian state television whenever it’s convenient.
Putin is a monster. A monster with ironclad control over thousands of nuclear weapons and a police state, a former KGB agent whose psyche never recovered from the collapse of the Soviet empire and who continues to seek to reclaim those nations lost from Moscow’s grip when the Warsaw Pact dissolved and the Soviet Union broke apart.
Donald Trump gave Putin the trappings of legitimacy on the world stage.
Also
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/putin-played-preznit-fuckwit-like
who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
‘let’s take a deteriorating old coot in serious cognitive decline, drag him out of bed at four in the morning, bundle him into Dipshit Force One and fly him thousands of miles to a despot playdate with a crafty old war criminal who has bested him every time they’ve previously met.’
and then what? just pray that Dear Leader doesn’t shit the bed?
yeah, well guess what: all that praying didn’t work. Anyone hoping for a show of strength and resolve from America’s Mad King got this instead:
good boy, Donny. another iconic image for the ages, with the guy who walks you like a dog.
Also:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-freaks-over-reports-massively-152007488.html
Trump has been fuming for days over the media’s coverage of his do-nothing meeting Friday with Putin. “These people are sick!” he wrote in another post on Truth Social Sunday.
But as much as Trump would like to pretend, Moscow isn’t looking to cede territory—it’s looking to steal. The U.S. president claimed Sunday that Ukraine could end the fighting immediately if it were only willing to give up on reclaiming Crimea, and receiving a long-awaited NATO membership.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday Putin had agreed that the U.S. could offer Ukraine an “Article Five-like protection,” instead of actual membership into the military bloc. Russia also agreed to implement a law not to “go after any other European countries and violate their sovereignty,” Witkoff said. “And there was plenty more.”
But as of yet, no ceasefire agreement or peace deal has actually materialized from the meeting—only the president’s fan fiction.
Also:
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/putin-plays-trump-again
If Trump hates being called a Russian asset, he should stop acting like one. His so-called summit with Vladimir Putin, which was obviously intended as a distraction from the Epstein scandal, magnified another malignant issue for Trump - his subservience to the Russian dictator.
It was apparent from the get-go that Putin landed in Anchorage with all of the leverage in this encounter with Trump. Ever the student of American presidential weaknesses, Putin knew his counterpart needed a distraction. So Putin extracted something of a coup from Trump that far exceeded the embarrassment from their last high-profile summit in Helsinki, Finland. This time, Putin was not just permitted to land on American soil, amid allegations of war crimes. Trump gave him the red carpet treatment, complete with a ride in the presidential limo, and a news conference that was tailor made for Russian state television.
To the amazement of likely every credible diplomat on the planet, Putin was allowed to speak first. As the host of the summit, Trump should have handled the opening to their joint remarks. Any White House with a shred of institutional knowledge would have insisted on that. Instead, the Russian dictator was the alpha male and he proceeded to repeat a litany of Kremlin talking points, laughably accusing former president Joe Biden of somehow causing the war in Ukraine. Putin even parroted the U.S president’s oft-repeated lie that the war would have never happened had Trump been in office at the time of the Russian invasion. Putin knows flattery gets you everywhere with Trump, even when it’s delivered with his patented KGB smirk - undoubtedly a face palm moment for leaders across much of Europe.
At the very least, the White House should have required Putin to take questions in exchange for his tour of a U.S. military base. Talk about a potential espionage bonanza. Instead, Putin was allowed to skate off without answering questions about the crimes against humanity committed in his country’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The vodka must have already been flowing in Moscow when Trump cried about “the Russia hoax.”
