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

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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…

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.

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

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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  2. 2.

    opiejeanne

    ndrew S. Weiss
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    @andrewsweiss
    4h4 hours ago
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    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.”

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    JGabriel

    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.

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    Amir Khalid

    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.

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    NobodySpecial

    @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.

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    hellslittlestangel

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

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    Aleta

    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!’)

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    SFAW

    @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.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    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.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    “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.

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    jl

    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.

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