Generally, my feeling about life is “better late than never.” But in this case, being late means that all has basically been lost already. Here’s the Big News, although to you, me, anybody with two brain cells to rub together, this is decades old information. But it’s brand new info to Donald Trump. His hero has feet of clay. And Putin refuses to play ball with Trump. Ergo, Trump is unhappy with Vladimir Putin. The hell you say? Listen for yourself.
I would give anything to know what prompted this outburst. My best supposition is that Trump did in fact talk with Putin and mention the war and Putin probably shined him on or made false promises — something that the rest of the world would understand. But not Trump.
Trump may well have figured that Putin was going to help him out with a great headline. Think of it, now: “C’mon Vlad, you’ve got to stop before Memorial Day, so that I can go out there and be a big shot for stopping the war. I need some really good press these days and that would persuade the Democrats to finance the big parade for my birthday. So willya do it, buddy, huh? Pretty please with vodka on it?”
And Putin probably said something inscrutable like, “You’ll get exactly what you and your inner circle have earned,” which is to say jack nothing. But Trump undoubtedly thought it meant the moon and then some. Trump probably thought Putin would not only stop the Ukraine war but help him take over Panama and invade Greenland, too.
Just my speculation. But you can’t quibble with the fact that Trump’s registered genuine frustration in talking about his former BFF, Vlad. He’s not happy with him now. And the only reasonable explanation is that Trump was genuinely stupid enough to believe that he could rely on Putin and now Trump has found out the hard way what Zelensky and everybody else has been telling him for years: Putin doessn’t keep his word.
Who knows? There may have even been merit for this “24 hours” madness of Trump’s. Maybe Putin did trifle with him and lead him to believe that that was a possiblity. I doubt it, but I suppose everything is possible.
He never stopped. He laughed at Trump and continued the killing, because Trump is an international joke and his foreign policy team is filled with bumbling, weak, appeasing incompetents. pic.twitter.com/JKTWQ2UAAt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 25, 2025
Trump now seems to be disabused of the notion that he’s Vlad’s buddy and he can tell him what to do. As to what Vlad will do next, I frankly wouldn’t be surprised if we see more pictures of naked Melania on Russian TV. That was Putin’s way of letting him know who was the big dog back when the Inauguration took place. Maybe Putin will do it again.
Or, hey, wouldn’t it be hysterically funny if Putin released the peepee tape of legend and lore? That would be a howler.
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Nooooo…. Trump agreed with Putin to bomb the shit out of Ukraine and you can take that to the bank!