Y’all, this excuse for a man seems to have no control when talking to the press on Air Force One. If you remember, I wrote earlier this year about the Mango Mandarin Messiah losing his shizzle at a reporter from the Wall Street Journal simply because he didn’t like an article about him. But by losing his mind, he makes the issue bigger and more likely to stay around than if he’d ignored it. Of course, since he’s more than willing to babble about anything at any time (see: Truth Social and 2 to 3 am), and thus keeps it circulating much longer and making himself just look worse.
So here we are again, this time with a reporter from the BBC. And it’s about Putin, and how much they are the two strong men of the world *snort*. Putin didn’t show for the peace talks and was even more insulting by sending his Z team (I wish I had a better way to express this garbage) to talk.
Well, Zelenskyy knew practically from the get-go that Putin would NOT show, but oh, he yanked Agent Orange around by implying up to the last moment he *would* be coming. Zelensky sent a good team, but was not at the agreed-upon location, and thus was in the capital, talking to President Erdogan. He knew Pootie wasn’t going to show. Suffice it to say, nothing really got done.
So now Trumpolini has to bluster and bluff and say he was only going to go if Putin did. He did not come out well.
A defensive Trump snapped at a reporter on Air Force One and insisted he was not “disappointed” at Vladimir Putin snubbing peace talks in Turkey, declaring that “nothing is going to happen” until the two tough guy leaders get together.
Speaking on Air Force One just hours after Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov curtly confirmed Putin would not attend, Trump turned prickly when talk turned to the Russian leader.
The president had just left Qatar and was headed for the United Arab Emirates when he fielded questions on the presidential aircraft.
He became tetchy when a BBC journalist asked if he was “disappointed” about the level of the delegation the Russians sent to Turkey.
“I’m not disappointed in anything, I don’t know a thing about it,” he said sternly. “Where are you from, who are you from?” he asked, with the reporter responding that he represented the British broadcaster.
He then quickened his speech and launched into a rambling, contradictory diatribe about Putin’s “will he or won’t he” attendance: “Look. Nothing’s gonna happen until Putin and I get together, OK? And obviously—he wasn’t going to go.
“He was going to go, but he thought I was going. He wasn’t going if I wasn’t there, and I don’t believe anything’s going to happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I get together. But we’re going to have to get it solved because too many people are dying,” he concluded.
Gee, ya think? And how he could use that last line in terms of what he and Vance have been doing is total shizzle because he doesn’t give a d*mn about that. *Biden* was doing pretty d*mn well with this whole thing. tRump is not. He’s screwing Ukraine left, right, and center. He has been doing so almost as soon as he took office. And then there was Vance’s rant for the Munich Security Council. Oh, my lawd. I would have seriously considered punting him out the door because that was NOT HELPFUL and made the US look pretty d*mn bad. I can’t stand either one of them. But, back to something more entertaining. Ha.
In an attempt to save face earlier on Thursday, Trump claimed he knew Putin was never going to attend. “I didn’t anticipate… I actually said, ‘why would he go if I’m not going?’ Because I wasn’t going to go,” he said.
“I wasn’t planning to go. I would go, but I wasn’t planning to go. And I said, I don’t think he’s going to go if I don’t go. And that’s turned out to be right.”
His rambling answer continued: “But we have people there, Marco’s [Rubio] there, Marco’s doing a fantastic job… but I didn’t think it was possible for Putin to go if I’m not there.”
Trump told reporters en route to Qatar on Wednesday: “[Putin] would like me to be there, and that’s a possibility… I don’t know that he would be there if I’m not there. We’re going to find out.”
Heh. Yea no. You were just as surprised that Putin didn’t come as much as Ukraine already knew he wouldn’t come. So Trumpelthinskin had to do “The Weave” and make it like he knew all along. *snort* Notice it didn’t work? To close, here’s one more quote, but not from the Cheeto Prophet.
“Everything will depend on whether Putin is scared of coming to Istanbul or not. Based on his response, the Ukrainian leadership will decide on the next steps,” a Ukrainian diplomatic source told Reuters on Wednesday.
Well. This is going to take some thought, especially with Russia sending the Z team. Ukraine was not surprised. tRump was surprised. And Putin looks pretty bad. Is there going to be yet another temper tantrum after another failed attempt? Ukraine is firm about its conditions. We shall see, right? We shall see. Thanks for sticking with me!
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