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Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.

The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”.

It was the first time that Zelenskyy and Trump had met face to face after a frosty February encounter in the White House where Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated the Ukrainian leader and accused him of ingratitude for US aid.

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[–] ef9357@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Everybody plays him, but he’s not smart enough to see it.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

Russia has a long tradition of espionage.

[–] BigRigButters@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

lol this dood is such an idiot

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 111 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's amazing how this man's brain is so feeble that he just fully believes what the last person he met with him tells him.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

I believe that in the medical community this is called Joe Rogan's Disease

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I need to see this play out like a heist movie. Two opposing advisors are battling each other to get their idea in his head for the big speech. They get into some zany hijinks trying to be the last to speak to him. Some real spy vs spy stuff.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

Inception of the stupid. Written, Directed and Produced by the Coen Brothers.

[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Something odd is happening with the right, seems like they're trying to hedge their bets for blowback.

Trump definitely knew this all along, to say this now seems like damage control.

Then earlier this week Rogan calling out the deportations to El Salvador without a trial, saying it was an overcorrection to the left that has gone too far.

I wonder if the American people will buy it.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Overcorrection to the LEFT???

[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

his words not mine but yeah that's what he said

meaning he's over correcting as a response to what the left was doing

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Its weirder than that, had someone on lemmy try to convince me that deportations, purity tests and fascism are all far left policies. Its like they're trying to shift all their own shit onto some imaginary other.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s a common take that the left are fascists because we …want LGBTQ+ etc to be accepted. Fucking bizarre.

[–] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Hey hey, we also want people not to starve or go into horrific debt because of medical issues. Super clear indicators of fascism or something.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

They are all fascist policies that the US "left" (a.k.a. liberals/Democrats) support

[–] BigRigButters@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are all bidens/obama polices tho

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

And that's why they're not left

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)

tapping me along

Anyone got a trump-to-english conversion for this one?

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When you get tapped along, it'll make your covfefe hamberders yippy.

“Tapping me along” made me imagine someone tapping a golf ball. Nudging it, but not making a big swing, it could be indicative of a subtle influence.

Trump may not know a lot about a lot, but he spends enough time golfing to potentially use a metaphor from it. On the other hand, I’ve never golfed (except the mini kind), so I could be way off.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Scene: DJT standing awkwardly at a table. Beside him, sitting on the floor is Vladimir Putin with his Entire Arm shoved up DJT's ass.

DJT: I'm starting to think Putin might be manipulating me.

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