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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / #GlobalFacepalms Open Thread: The Trump-Putin Bromance in Paris

#GlobalFacepalms Open Thread: The Trump-Putin Bromance in Paris

by Anne Laurie|  November 12, 20182:51 am| 31 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Russiagate, All Too Normal

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Remarkable @Reuters photo of world leaders reacting to Putin's arrival in Paris today. One of them looks visibly happier than the rest. pic.twitter.com/sPfhrUkuIp

— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) November 11, 2018

For all Trump is supposed to be ‘a master of visual media’, sure looks like Putin who has the better grasp of the optics here…

Brief Trump-Putin encounter in Paris. The Russian president flashes Trump a ?? after a handshake. https://t.co/TGIEWNYKUF

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) November 11, 2018

Last time I saw a grin/grip/lapel-adjustment like this, literally, was a senior VP hearing at the company roundtable that his division would get its full funding after all. Not just relief, but a public signalling of renewed confidence in one’s business superior.

#Russia's state media complains that Putin and Trump "weren't allowed to communicate," as the seating arrangements were changed at the last minute in order to keep them apart. Putin told Russian media that the two managed to talk nonetheless and their conversation went well. ©? pic.twitter.com/DDYfxkxdnN

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 11, 2018

Kremlin TV: Trump and Putin were supposed to sit next to each other, but French moved them at last minute. (Putin ends up between UN and EU chiefs.) pic.twitter.com/24YFl9b34D

— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) November 11, 2018

It’s a Tristan & Iseult romance for our times!

Upon leaving Élysée Palace, Putin answers question if he managed to talk with Trump with "yes," says conversation was "good." pic.twitter.com/bU1ppMp4Ic

— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) November 11, 2018

Of course Putin’s mostly trolling, but can you imagine if it were any other American president who got caught kowtowing this way? Even a Republican?

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  1. 1.

    opiejeanne

    November 12, 2018 at 3:01 am

    Trump is displaying the worst shit-eating grin I’ve ever seen.

  2. 2.

    opiejeanne

    November 12, 2018 at 3:03 am

    ndrew S. Weiss
    ‏

    @andrewsweiss
    4h4 hours ago
    More
    White House confirms Trump and Putin had a substantive conversation in Paris. Joined by other Western leaders, they discussed “the INF (nuclear treaty), Syria, trade, the situation in Saudi Arabia, sanctions, Afghanistan, China and North Korea.”

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 12, 2018 at 3:24 am

    Gahhhh.

  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    November 12, 2018 at 3:28 am

    Lucian Kim via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Kremlin TV: Trump and Putin were supposed to sit next to each other, but French moved them at last minute.

    […]

    Upon leaving Élysée Palace, Putin answers question if he managed to talk with Trump with “yes,” says conversation was “good.”

    From Chinese Transcript of Conversation between Pres. Donald Trump of the US and President Vladmir Putin of Russia, 2018.11.11, Intercepts via President Trump’s Unsecured Cell Phone Transmission, After New Seating Arrangements Were Announced:

    Trump: The French just changed the seating arrangement, Pootiekins. I don’t know how we’ll find time to talk privately.

    Putin: MAKE the time, Donald. I have new orders for you. Orders that I will only transmit in person.

  5. 5.

    John Revolta

    November 12, 2018 at 3:37 am

    Melania is all, “Boris, Dollink! I brought Moose to meetink you!!”

  6. 6.

    opiejeanne

    November 12, 2018 at 4:01 am

    @JGabriel: I think they exchanged notes when they passed in the hallway.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    November 12, 2018 at 4:24 am

    It seems to me that Trump isn’t merely beholden to Putin and isn’t just his underling, but is also a bigly fanboi. And is not the only such person in the current Republican party.

  8. 8.

    opiejeanne

    November 12, 2018 at 4:29 am

    @Amir Khalid: Yes. The way he lit up when he saw Putin was a tell. I mean, he doesn’t even pretend. No subtlety, no playing hard-to-get.

  9. 9.

    NobodySpecial

    November 12, 2018 at 4:31 am

    @Amir Khalid: Of course he is. Not only is he the “President” Trump wants to be, he’s also the richest man on the planet. He’s the ultimate Chad to a beta cuck like Trump, to use their lingo. Trump can’t help but be attracted.

  10. 10.

    oatler.

    November 12, 2018 at 4:36 am

    @John Revolta: Willian Conrad narration: “Enough with this Putin bullshit!”

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    Geoduck

    November 12, 2018 at 4:45 am

    A big smile, and almost a.. normal looking one, unlike his usual efforts.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    November 12, 2018 at 4:48 am

    @opiejeanne:
    Trump looks like he’s in love.

  13. 13.

    hellslittlestangel

    November 12, 2018 at 4:51 am

    Afterwards, Trump whiled away hours in his hotel room practicing a fantasy signature: Mrs Vladimir Putin.

  14. 14.

    PeakVT

    November 12, 2018 at 4:51 am

    Traitor.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    November 12, 2018 at 4:55 am

    Nothing but a traitor??

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    November 12, 2018 at 5:01 am

    @rikyrah

    Open thread, so –

    Saw you earlier expressed interest in thing Black Fridayish/Cyber Mondayish.

    This site is the most comprehensive, AFAIK, and updated frequently.

  17. 17.

    Platonailedit

    November 12, 2018 at 5:02 am

    Trump almost never smiles; he smirks or sneers. The other genuine, relaxed smile I recall is with Lavrov and Kislyak in the Oval Office.

    https://t.co/1qgMu7K47k— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 11, 2018

    Putin’s easy win cost him nothing.

  18. 18.

    Aleta

    November 12, 2018 at 5:18 am

    So he winked at him again? (Also happened at Helsinki.)

    Big smile (‘Whit’s on it! We’re cool honey bunny.’)
    Thumbs up (‘Atta boy Rinty!’)
    Wink (‘We two kings, just sitting here, ruling the world!’)

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    November 12, 2018 at 6:42 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Trump looks like he’s in love.

    I was going to comment that it’s a good thing the cameras didn’t get a full-frontal (so to speak) of Shitgibbon, because the photos would probably appear in a family-friendly newspaper.

    But then I realized that, even if his Putin lust love were more … um … evident, they still would have needed an SEM to discern any state of change. One reason I call him Lying Littledick.

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    November 12, 2018 at 6:44 am

    @John Revolta:

    Melania is all, “Boris, Dollink! I brought Moose to meetink you!!”

    “Mook,” not “moose.”

  21. 21.

    different-church-lady

    November 12, 2018 at 6:45 am

    @opiejeanne: Well, keep in mind he’s eating some of the worst shit.

  22. 22.

    RedDirtGirl

    November 12, 2018 at 6:55 am

    Angela Merkel had a hard time suppressing a grin when Putin gave Trump the thumbs up!

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    November 12, 2018 at 7:00 am

    The head-tilt is another tell.

  24. 24.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    November 12, 2018 at 7:23 am

    Yesterday I watched “All the Money in the World,” the movie about the Getty kidnapping. Old man Getty looked as if having all that money had made him into a crazy person. It made me think of Trump, but I guess Putin is up there too, though in his case “crazy” and “all that money” present a sort of chicken-and-egg question.

  25. 25.

    Uncle Cosmo

    November 12, 2018 at 8:33 am

    “Tristan & Iseult”, my royal italoamerican arse – more like “Traitorstan & I’mSold”.

    Presumably the Deuxieme Bureau had the place bugged up the wazoo so they (& by extension anyone with a need to know over here, including Robert Trois-Bâtons) have the audio & a translation at hand by now.

  26. 26.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    November 12, 2018 at 8:50 am

    Macron looks like he’s about to punch Putin lol

  27. 27.

    japa21

    November 12, 2018 at 9:00 am

    @opiejeanne: WHich means Trump and Putin didn’t have a conversation. It means they all were together for a conversation.

  28. 28.

    Ryan

    November 12, 2018 at 10:00 am

    I thought most performance reviews took place in the spring?

  29. 29.

    SWMBO

    November 12, 2018 at 11:20 am

    Trump is looking at Putin like Biden used to look at Obama.

  30. 30.

    jl

    November 12, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    Tump is like a free lance contractor who has to juggle so many paymasters at once. You got Saudi Arabia and some of the richer Gulf States, Israel, some rich power centers in Turkey. And there are problems, the Turkish and Saudi clients are having a tiff right now. And several other middling size contracts we can only suspect at this time.

    But Russia is the really big make-or-break contract. If Putin ain’t happy, nobody’s happy.

  31. 31.

    Bnad

    November 12, 2018 at 8:52 pm

    How do we know Trump and Putin didn’t get together in Trumpov’s hotel room for 8 hours?

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