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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill the Trump/Putin bromance last?
I think it might. These two may have what it takes to go the distance.
no_hypocrisy
(46,274 posts)between a rock and hard place.
mopinko
(70,307 posts)and whatever putin has on him is unlikely to wear off.
elleng
(131,292 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,859 posts)Long-time friend, Roy Cohn?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
He (Cohn) felt abandoned by Trump when he became fatally ill from AIDS, and said, Donald pisses ice water. Schwartz says of Trump, Hed like people when they were helpful, and turn on them when they werent. It wasnt personal. Hes a transactional manit was all about what you could do for him.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Trump has no soul.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,859 posts)What's worse is that he's a stupid sociopath! A smart one who listens to evidence strikes me as less likely to get us in a war.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
When challenged about the facts, Schwartz says, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent.
Other biographers:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-campaign-biography-psychology-history-barrett-hurt-dantiono-blair-obrien-213835
Blair: Whenever I went to interview him, I always felt like a failure, because he would never say anything. It would just be blather. He would say how great he was, and then I would then get more blather. And that is how he talks on the campaign trail. People always ask me, Is that how he really is?
Hurt: Yeah, thats how he really is.
OBrien: When you hold his feet to the fire on a fact pattern, he does not handle it well. You saw this a little bit in one of the debates, when the Fox host started putting slides up on him. He melted. He actually looked like he was melting.
Given Trump's stubbornness, it wouldn't surprise me if he's still clinging to his 1987 "plan" to disarm every country that has nuclear weapons... except for the USA and Russia!
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2016/03/trump_s_nuclear_experience_advice_for_reagan_in_1987.html
Most of those countries are in one form or another dominated by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Trump says. Between those two nations you have the power to dominate any of those countries. So we should use our power of economic retaliation and they use their powers of retaliation and between the two of us we will prevent the problem from happening. It would have been better having done something five years ago, he says. But I believe even a country such as Pakistan would have to do something now. Five years from now theyll laugh.
You think Pakistan would just fold? We wouldnt have to offer them anything in return?
Maybe we should offer them something. Im saying you start off as nicely as possible. You apply as much pressure as necessary until you achieve the goal. You start off telling them, Lets get rid of it. If that doesnt work you then start cutting off aid. And more aid and then more. You do whatever is necessary so these people will have riots in the street, so they cant get water. So they cant get Band-Aids, so they cant get food. Because thats the only thing thats going to do itthe people, the riots.
But what about the French? I ask Trump. They
Id come down on them so hard, he says. Because I think theyve been the worst example of
But they already have the bomb. Do you think theyll give it up?
Well, I tell you if they didnt give it up
Look, they blew up the Greenpeace ship
Theyve got the bomb, but they dont have it now with the delivery capability they will have in five years. I f they didnt give it upand I dont mean reduce it, and I dont mean stop, because stopping doesnt mean anything. I mean get it out. If they didnt, I would bring sanctions against that country that would be so strong, so unbelievable...
SHRED
(28,136 posts)It's fine when tRump was all business and their love affair was not that noticed.
Now that tRump has stepped into the public arena things will be different.
The dynamics have changed.
neverforget
(9,437 posts)exploit it. Trump, being played like the fool he is by the former head of the KGB, won't realize it until it's too late. Putin has Trump, and us, right where he wants us now.
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,859 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz emerged from his nearly hour-long meeting with Donald Trump smiling and vowing that the two men wont let a presidential race get in the way of a blossoming friendship.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ted-cruz-standing-donald-trump/story?id=32468902
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-ted-cruz-wooed-and-won-donald-trump/2015/09/01/04f9f65e-4cec-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html?utm_term=.c80eeb2da139
I was very happy that he wanted to come up because I wanted to thank him for backing me. It turned out we were both right and everyone else was wrong, Trump said in a phone interview with Bloomberg.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-16/donald-trump-says-he-s-thankful-for-ted-cruz-s-support
Runningdawg
(4,529 posts)Trump accepts Putin's offer of asylum.