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  • Bosht@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Dude has had his mouth permanently attached to Putin’s crotch for close to a decade. This is either him trying to save face or straight up bullshit.

    • Eril@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      Eh, a few days from now Trump will say something like “I had an amazing call with Putin. He is a great guy, Ukraine should surrender now”. Dude can’t remember what he said yesterday.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      This just is Trump’s ‘negotiation’ methodology.

      Its either:

      X is great, they’re the best, nobody was ever like X, absolutely tremendous.

      or

      X is gonna do what we want, they have no choice, we’ll make things very painful for them if they don’t.

      or

      X has gone absolutely crazy, just awful, the most terrible things that have been done in terms bad things, they must pay!

      … dementia riddled mob boss tactics.

      The rhetoric is always 110%, but the underlying tactic just flips around like a weather vane in a hurricane… because Trump literally is not capable of long term, strategic thinking.

      He’s just good at bullying people.

      tl:dr; Trump is almost always bullshitting and saving face at the same time, because he doesn’t understand or believe in anything other than the appearance of wealth and power.

      He is the manifestation of the id of the American ruling class, a ravenous, screaming toddler that only wants MORE, with none of the carefully crafted corpo-chic lingo that makes them seem intelligent and respectable.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      He doesn’t like being called out for being Putin’s bitch. So now he’s trash-talking Putin with all the credibility of a WWE beef.

    • Frog@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      He got what he wanted. He probably got intelligence that either Putin is getting out of power one way or another.