The Kremlin just barked

[Recursion]

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]

1. What did they say?

[not_the_one]

3. Putin, essentially said

"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]

20. Haha.

[question everything]

23. Frankly I was thinking that he thought how wimpy Whiny Donny is

and were he in Russia the new KGB would have ended his misery the way they've always done.

[Bayard]

2. Next step:

Big dog pees on little dog.

[getagrip_already]

8. alpha dog humps little dog.....

being humped is a submissive act (at least between two male dogs).

[Hortensis]

33. I think Putin and MBS basically did that with their

very public grinning high-five. Everyone there knows Trump's in bad trouble.

[George II]

4. Speaking of which:

[The Liberal Lion]

12. OMG

[gratuitous]

16. An obvious photoshop

Trump's hands are too big and his tie is too short.

[Chemisse]

19. That's exactly what was missing from the original.

The expressions all make sense now.

[comradebillyboy]

26. Putin's poodle.

[CrispyQ]

28. So perfect!

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. OMFG!! That is so perfect.

[uponit7771]

37. +1

[neohippie]

5. Yep

[volstork]

6. No puppet.

No puppet! NO PUPPET!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. It just never gets

old.

[getagrip_already]

9. putins meda is now saying he is the leader of the free world - not trump

And now he is going to prove it to the world

[FakeNoose]

11. Yeah, except he's not

He might be the leader of the unfree world, though. It's a debatable point.

[neohippie]

13. Not so "Free" world

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]

15. Perfect caption for this pic...

Ha! tRump only thinks he can kill someone in broad daylight and get away with it. We can actually DO IT! Yeah!!!

[ewagner]

24. Did you see Trump????

SLOUCHING INTO THE MEETING IN THE BACKGROUND

[flibbitygiblets]

40. WOMP WOMP!!

[Achilleaze]

10. republicans are submissive to the russian mob

disgusting

[The Liberal Lion]

14. Don Putin

[Cracklin Charlie]

17. Did you see the greetings between Putin and Murder Prince?

I think I wanna barf.

[PeeJ52]

18. ... and tRump waddling in the room in the background

with no one paying him any attention. Poor Donnybrook...

[marble falls]

22. From youtube

[MrsCoffee]

30. Fucking gross. And they don't even care who sees it.

As if the world doesn't understand what they just did there.

[marble falls]

34. Keith Olbermann always used to say its because they don't think we can hear or see them.

[libdem4life]

38. Notice they got seated together. Coincidence?

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]

39. I hope he is supremely unhappy.

[libdem4life]

41. Not only did he have to directly watch them "yuck it up" but

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]

43. Whatever contributes to keeping him awake nights i'm all for!

[libdem4life]

44. From the look of him, especially overseas which he hates,

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]

25. I did. Hope that runs on the news for a couple of days. Two of Trump's idols, high-fiving each other

just days after one of them ordered a journalist murdered and cut up.

[marble falls]

35. Putin and MBS are having a contest over who can bag the most journalists.

[KPN]

21. And our WH Occupant blinked.

[Bluesaph]

27. Donny can't sit next to the "cool" kids

He’s being bullied. Womp womp

[EleanorR]

29. trump would absolutely not be president without putin

Surely trump knows putin owns him now.

[libdem4life]

42. Wouldn't it be interesting...Putin put him in office...now he's pretty much

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]

32. If you're talking about the article that he "rejects" the cancellation, that was incorrect

Rawstory retracted it - the word they intended to use was "regrets."

[Recursion]

36. I'm talking about the Kremlin's announcement today that they would have an informal meeting

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.