Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning, you eat three big Macs and hate yourself in the morning
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Someone call Mark Burnett, this season of the Art of the Kneel may need some edits:
Despite walking away without a deal and without sharing any details on progress toward ending the war in Ukraine, the president could be seen laughing as he spoke to Putin.
The only person standing with the two leaders as they spoke was Putin’s translator.
In the video, Trump can be seen offering his hand first to shake hands with Putin. The president then tapped their joined hands with his other hand, embracing Putin with a two-hand shake. He also shook the Russian translator’s hand at the end of the clip.
The Kremlin was quick to release the video. While the White House has been posting a series of clips from the historic visit in Alaska, it has not yet shared any candid video of Trump and Putin together. The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast’s request for comment.
According to RT, the video was taken right after their public remarks, during which neither man took any questions from reporters. It described their behind-the-scenes banter as “light chatter.”
The contrast between the humiliatingly obsequious treatment Trump gave Putin in exchange for absolutely no concessions and the treatment he gave to the leader of the actually democratic country Putin invaded in a pure war of aggression tells you most of what you need to know about both Trump’s worldview and his leadership abilities.
Meanwhile, today in “hanging out with Matt Taibbi turns your brain into tapioca pudding”:
Bill Maher: "Russiagate was not completely made up."
Walter Kirn:"We're finding out day by day that it was almost completely made up."
Maher: "Oh, please. It's on tape. He's asking the Russians for help on tape, which he gave them that day." pic.twitter.com/eeTzCZpeRb— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) August 16, 2025
From fairly serious novelist to guy who can get power-dunked on by late period Bill Maher(!) — sad. The only thing more pathetic than Trump negotiating with Putin is his late-converting fanboys.