"Putin has gone absolutely CRAZY" - Krasnov

[speak easy]

Trump Rebukes Putin, Calls Escalation of Attacks Absolutely Crazy

“He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ve known him a long time. Always gotten along with him. But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”

He added, “We’re in the middle of talking, and he’s shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities.”

Mr. Trump continued criticizing Mr. Putin hours later, writing on social media that his Russian counterpart “has gone absolutely CRAZY” and was shooting missiles and drones into Ukraine’s cities, “for no reason whatsoever.”

“He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers,” Mr. Trump wrote

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-attacks.html

"“He is needlessly killing a lot of people." Well duh, you moron.

[yellowcanine]

1. Trump just noticed Putin kills people for fun.

What’s next, the North Koreans have nukes?

[speak easy]

2. "North Koreans have nukes? "

Fake news. Kim sent me love letters. He's a Goodfella.

[Emrys]

3. "We're in the middle of talking" makes it sound like Putin committed a social faux pas.

Which is the root of Trump's griping - Putin's showing Trump up as powerless and ineffectual, with his "STOP Vladimir!" BS, and blatantly disrespecting him. Putin's been doing that for years, but it seems Trump's only just understood it. And still he has to hedge his bets with a nonsensical "both sides" jab at Zelensky.

From Putin's first year as Russian president onward:











CNN collected "80 times Trump talked about Putin" from 2013 to 2017, almost all of them complimentary - https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/03/politics/trump-putin-russia-timeline/

Trump in February 2022:

“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine – of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”

The day after he made those comments, he effectively doubled down on them. “They say, ‘Trump said Putin’s smart.’ I mean, he’s taking over a country for two dollars’ worth of sanctions,” Trump told a crowd at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, according to a recording of the event. “I’d say that’s pretty smart. He’s taking over a country – really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.”

Then, in a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend, Trump, again, repeated his praise of Putin. “Yesterday reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart,” he said. “I said, ‘Of course, he’s smart,’ to which I was greeted with ‘Oh, that’s such a terrible thing to say.’” I like to tell them, ‘Yes, he’s smart.’”

But somehow it's Obama's, Biden's and Zelensky's war.

From a May 20 press conference:

You said you believe Putin wants peace, but he just attacked Ukraine yesterday. So what makes you think he wants peace?

Trump: “Well, he's in a war…They’re attacking each other…”

I guess that time Putin did it politely. And wore a suit.

[speak easy]

4. "I guess that time Putin did it politely. And wore a suit."

and sweet talked one the telephone :vomit:

[Buckeyeblue]

5. This is where Trump double crosses Putin

Maybe he takes out Putin and tries to install himself as President of Russia.

[speak easy]

6. "President of Russia."

I like. Leave.

[doc03]

7. After three years he finally discovered that Putin is bombing people for no reason.

[D_Master81]

8. But...

I could’ve sworn you had such a good relationship with him that he never would’ve started the war had you been president

[mopinko]

9. i'm all for him pissing on putler.

maybe he serves his some glowing tea. or cuts off the rubles he’s been flooding the u.s. politcal system w for a couple decades.

[marble falls]

10. Takes one to know one. They're both in an alternate reality.

[Ping Tung]

11. It looks like he and Poot have cranked their pissing contest up to 11.