What If It Was Putin Who Cancelled on Trump?

[MineralMan]

They haven't managed to get together the last few times they've been in the same place. Now, Trump has claimed that he canceled a meet-up in Argentina with Putin.

Perhaps, instead, Putin is finished with Trump. He's squeezed all he can from him and is cutting him loose. Trump's no longer an asset to Putin. With all the problems Trump is facing here, Putin may have simply written him off as a loss.

Now, I don't know this with any certainty, but it would make sense. If Trump goes down in flames, Putin might get singed a little if he's too close when it happens.

Does that seem logical to anyone else?

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I thought about this, he isn't as useful to him as he once was.

I don't think Putin worries about getting singed, but he doesn't waste his time of people or things that don't benefit him.

[MineralMan]

7. Well, if it's true and Putin has dumped Trump,

I think Trump should worry about being forced out of office. Putin knows things, and is pretty savvy about putting things together. Evil man though he is, he's not stupid. It's interesting to consider.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

32. Not stupid or nuts ola

If you were to think in depth about it, wouldn't one surmise that the Russians have a complete psychological work up on Trump (profile) with specific detail on the predictability of Trump. Putin was carefully groomed. Yes evil. Imagine.

[blugbox]

2. I like this a lot.

It also goes with his MO of trying to make everything that happens about him.

He can't be perceived as weak... so NO I BROKE UP WITH HIM! NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

[ProudLib72]

3. I thought that was the most likely scenario all along

The only reason I could think of for Rump cancelling on Putin was because he feared the optics. Then I thought, "When was the last time Rump cared about optics?"

[volstork]

14. Love your sig line!

MY gut says, "Asshole."

[ProudLib72]

19. Thanks! I came up with that one yesterday

But these days, the "gut" meme will only be good for a week before he says the next dumb thing.

[volstork]

22. I'm afraid you are correct.

[leftynyc]

4. It wasn't

I just saw one of putin's minions saying (paraphrase) it's okay, now we have time for more useful meetings. It was a diss at donnie.

[dalton99a]

5. Especially with Democrats in charge of the House

The puppetry won't be as easy

[Wounded Bear]

6. Yeah, well, we know who the senior partner is in that arrangement...

Your assumption has the feel of reality to it.

People in criminal organizations seldom get to fire the boss.

[pwb]

8. Sounds very possible.

It could also be a diversion while Putin finds his good buddy a nice area in Russia for Trumps family?

[ChazInAz]

24. My suggestion.

Isn't the old Tsarist palace near Archangelsk vacant since the Revolution? Isolated, miles from anywhere. It would serve the Trumps as well as it did the Tsar and his family. They spent the rest of their lives there.

[lunatica]

38. Well they were all murdered so the rest of their lives were pretty short.

[libdem4life]

34. I don't think Putin would even want him in Russia...even Sibera

I agree that he's used him for all he can get. Trump is trapped...can't help him scam the US elections any more, probably won't even see his term out.

The one thing The Cretin fears the most...irrelevancy. Nobody looking, waving, bowing, taking photos, asking favors, etc. Just no one cares. I don't think that is too far away.

[agingdem]

9. Oh my!

makes sense...Poor Trump...his lawyer cops a plea and throws him and his evil spawn under the bus and then his master says no meeting no way...what's a narcissistic sociopath supposed to do?!

[awesomerwb1]

10. They don't have to be face to face to have a discussion/take orders/change course

I'm sure they've arranged other means of communication and this is just the way the "administration" is pretending to be concerned about the russia-Ukraine situation.

There's still a ton of damage to do to benefit Putin and russia in my opinion.

[saidsimplesimon]

11. "Et tu Brute?"

"Of course" (a favourite idiom of that mad man Robert Durst)

(PS: I will be sharing your "My Favorite Things" with my Republican family.)

Happy Trails to you and the Mrs

[MineralMan]

12. Yes, something like that.

Thanks for sharing!

[AlexSFCA]

13. it's not about 'working together' for putin

it is about the long trrm strategy to destroy US democracy: morally and economically.

[HipChick]

33. The US is weak

weak leadership...Orange blimp has seen to that...

[Raster]

15. I would not be surprised...

...tRump* is a reactor and a buffoon. Putin* is cagey, clever, and is KGB born and bred... He is NOT a stupid man. He's got to realize that tRump* can become a real liability very quickly.

[Claritie Pixie]

17. He's diabolical yet he's weak -

He absolutely needs to control the US and our resources to take over the world. Russia is crumbling has nothing, and the people are suffering.

He wants to gut the US the way he did Russia, and take all the spoils. He needs Trump to do it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. So the bromance is over

Likely Putin was playing Trump by appealing to his massive ego.

[duforsure]

18. I agree

Putin more than likely refused to meet with trump , and trump's claiming he did and lying ,again , to save face.

[Hekate]

20. I like the way you think. Being dumped by Vlad would have Red Don heaving in his socks...

...to borrow a phrase from an old college friend.

Care for a slice of Schadenfreude Pie? I like mine with black coffee that has a dollop of heavy whipped cream in top. Maybe some brandy in the coffee.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211489804

[MineralMan]

21. Just a small piece for me, thanks.

I'm watching my girlish figure.

[Firestorm49]

23. Putin isn't finished with tRump.

tRump is an “asset”. Once an asset, always an asset - that is, until you depart this Earth glowing with polonium.

They own him and aren’t about to give up without a fight - hence election fraud, or is it erection fraud?

Ah, but the best is yet to come.

[dawn frenzy adams]

25. Putin isn't through!

Trump is destroying America. It's Putin's dire wish. He is loving his bloated orange asset.

[Drunken Irishman]

26. Reminded of this scene from The Godfather Part 2...

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Lots of highly placed KGB ops here, including in the media.

(I refuse to use the new acronym)

Rump or no rump, Putin has plans not just for us but all of the free world.

This is whey DEATHLY afraid of Hillary he was.

[UniteFightBack]

28. I don't think so because I think we would of heard reporting from this leaky back stabbing white

trash house. Not much stays secret ova there...but it is possible what you say.

But I do tend to believe that rump cancelled...poots got pissed - how dare you cancel!! Then there is reporting that poots 'ordered' rump to meet and now they're meeting.

[unblock]

29. "if"?

[roamer65]

30. Putin isn't finished with Dump.

If Putin doesn’t get what he wants, the endgame will be to release kompromat in order to cause more chaos in our system. They know Dump will overreact by being more bombastic and divisive.

Dump is still useful to them in main goal of this gambit...the breakup of the United States.

[guillaumeb]

31. If Trump is finished as an asset, will Pence be approached?

Asking for a friend in Indiana.

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. Naw. He's still the POTUS after all

They need each other. Both can be useful to the other still. Trump in rescinding sanctions, and glossing over Putin's military adventures. Putin in helping him steal votes, and more important, helping his family business.

[joet67]

36. jilted! 😂

[LanternWaste]

37. Thank goodness Putin didn't put his hand on Trump's ass.

I can only imagine the pretense of logic that type of trolling would engender.