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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Kremlin just barked
Man, this is awful optics.
Trump announced he would not be meeting with Putin at G20. We all knew he was going to anyways, but I assumed either he would announce the change, or they'd just do it on the QT.
But, no. Vladimir had to prove he's the alpha dog here. The bigger dog doesn't need to bark to make the little dog submit. The bigger dog barks so that everyone watching sees that he can make the little dog submit.
Shell_Seas
(3,335 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)"My boy" in murika has been unable to control the narrative, and I am looking like shit, so the optics of us meeting would be questionable.
Don't call me, I'll call you.....
Shell_Seas
(3,335 posts)question everything
(47,522 posts)and were he in Russia the new KGB would have ended his misery the way they've always done.
Bayard
(22,128 posts)Big dog pees on little dog.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)being humped is a submissive act (at least between two male dogs).
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)very public grinning high-five. Everyone there knows Trump's in bad trouble.
George II
(67,782 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump's hands are too big and his tie is too short.
Chemisse
(30,816 posts)The expressions all make sense now.
comradebillyboy
(10,174 posts)CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)neohippie
(1,142 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)No puppet! NO PUPPET!!!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,502 posts)old.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)And now he is going to prove it to the world
FakeNoose
(32,726 posts)He might be the leader of the unfree world, though. It's a debatable point.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)He's a leader, of the not so free world, more like a leader of the international mobster world coalition of thugs and dictators
Link to tweet
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Ha! tRump only thinks he can kill someone in broad daylight and get away with it. We can actually DO IT! Yeah!!!
ewagner
(18,964 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)disgusting
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I think I wanna barf.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)with no one paying him any attention. Poor Donnybrook...
marble falls
(57,172 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)As if the world doesn't understand what they just did there.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Trump across the table.
In these group photos, usually Trump is square in the middle, but this time it's Abe, someone I don't recognize and Xi. Also, don't see Merkel. Trump does not seem happy. Pobrecito.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)pretty sure they weren't service cheeseburgers. Probably got a bad case of indigestion...stress and unfamiliar (healthy) food. Speaking of his gut....
marble falls
(57,172 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)and he's playing the Dunce on the national stage...I'd say he's not doing well in any way, shape or form. I'm starting to read that he'll be out by Jan 31. After reading this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/us/politics/trump-mueller-lying.html
it supports the facts of the sheer trembling in the White House, and Cabinet, of the cost of having to lie to keep their jobs. Fascinating.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)just days after one of them ordered a journalist murdered and cut up.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)KPN
(15,649 posts)Bluesaph
(703 posts)Hes being bullied. Womp womp
EleanorR
(2,394 posts)Surely trump knows putin owns him now.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)done with him. Wonder if he could get him out...tout suite????? Nor do I believe Putin has any place for him in Russia, as many think. Remember, what he touches dies...literally or figuratively. He's toxic. Plus, if he's under indictment of any kind, he can't leave the country. The only states that would have him are "Redneck Hillbillies" in his mind. I can say that because I'm currently living in one.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)Rawstory retracted it - the word they intended to use was "regrets."
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And it was JPost (or maybe Haaretz) that screwed up the translation on the other one. But I'm talking about the Kremlin's announcement earlier today.