Trump says he fears Putin ‘may be tapping me along’ after Zelenskyy meeting
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.
The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”.
It was the first time that Zelenskyy and Trump had met face to face after a frosty February encounter in the White House where Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated the Ukrainian leader and accused him of ingratitude for US aid.
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It's amazing how this man's brain is so feeble that he just fully believes what the last person he met with him tells him.
I need to see this play out like a heist movie. Two opposing advisors are battling each other to get their idea in his head for the big speech. They get into some zany hijinks trying to be the last to speak to him. Some real spy vs spy stuff.
Inception of the stupid. Written, Directed and Produced by the Coen Brothers.
I believe that in the medical community this is called Joe Rogan's Disease
In his mind he's ~6' 3", ~230 lbs with an IQ of 150.
He truly thinks that world leaders look up to him and that he's playing everyone else.
If you can't tell whether Trump is an idiot, then sorry I can't help you.
The issue is figuring out whether any given statement is due to stupidity or maliciousness.
Something odd is happening with the right, seems like they're trying to hedge their bets for blowback.
Trump definitely knew this all along, to say this now seems like damage control.
Then earlier this week Rogan calling out the deportations to El Salvador without a trial, saying it was an overcorrection to the left that has gone too far.
I wonder if the American people will buy it.
Its weirder than that, had someone on lemmy try to convince me that deportations, purity tests and fascism are all far left policies. Its like they're trying to shift all their own shit onto some imaginary other.
It’s a common take that the left are fascists because we …want LGBTQ+ etc to be accepted. Fucking bizarre.
Hey hey, we also want people not to starve or go into horrific debt because of medical issues. Super clear indicators of fascism or something.
Those are all bidens/obama polices tho
And that's why they're not left
Overcorrection to the LEFT???
his words not mine but yeah that's what he said
meaning he's over correcting as a response to what the left was doing
Anyone got a trump-to-english conversion for this one?
When you get tapped along, it'll make your covfefe hamberders yippy.
I love tesler
Bigly? SAD
“Tapping me along” made me imagine someone tapping a golf ball. Nudging it, but not making a big swing, it could be indicative of a subtle influence.
Trump may not know a lot about a lot, but he spends enough time golfing to potentially use a metaphor from it. On the other hand, I’ve never golfed (except the mini kind), so I could be way off.
Ever see a really well trained dog where all you have to do is tap the spot beside you and they bound over to you and dutifully sit in that spot?
I think maybe he meant "nudging me along"? I imagine Putin there at every step, reassuring Trump that he should just wait and see, that he'll do all work and make Trump look like the big man who negotiated a historic peace deal.
No peace deal means no publicity for the peace deal, so now Trump is getting worried because he tanked the global economy with nothing to show for it.
Scene: DJT standing awkwardly at a table. Beside him, sitting on the floor is Vladimir Putin with his Entire Arm shoved up DJT's ass.
DJT: I'm starting to think Putin might be manipulating me.
A rare lucid moment
Trump should know how to recognize tapping people along, it's one of his signature moves, right up there with tax fraud, stiffing creditors and strategic bankruptcy.
Treason and a riot
lol this dood is such an idiot
ROFLMAO
I want to offer a long history of how everyone saw this coming but I think "LOL" is the best response
Everybody plays him, but he’s not smart enough to see it.
I wonder [not to give him any credit] if DJT would be a better president if he were surrounded by actual decent people that were earnest/honest. It feels like it could be in the realm of possibility that he's treating the Ukraine/Russia conflict the way he has simply because the people around him are only giving him a specific narrative surrounding it. Either intentionally, incidentally, due to incompetence or sycophantic attempts to "please" trump.
Maybe this is the first time getting it from Ukraine's point of view, unfiltered.
Doesn't change/nor justify his shitty behavior, but... it makes a kind of sense.
It wouldn't surprise me. We are a product of our environment, and Trump is a very clear example of that. He tends to mimic and amplify whoever he thinks is the strongest/most powerful around him. He's a LeFou in constant search of a Gaston.
That's what his first term was. He either doesn't listen to good advice or doesn't care. Either way, it's still a shitshow.
Holy shit, he might have finally gotten through to that dunce in some small way.
He's a sharp one, the ol' Donny!
The human embodiment of Internet Explorer, everyone.
Russia has a long tradition of espionage.