Trump Claims He's the Putin Whisperer: 'I Was the Apple of His Eye'

[speak easy]

Donald Trump has offered a bizarre new reason for why he claims Vladimir Putin would have never launched his full-scale war against Ukraine if he were still in charge. “I was the apple of his eye,” the quadruply indicted former president said in an interview with Fox Business aired Friday. “Putin would have never gone into Ukraine, but that was just on my relationship with him, my personality over his,” he said.

Trump has repeatedly made such claims and asserted that he could “end that war in one day” by forcing Ukraine to “make a deal.” On the eve of the Kremlin’s launch of the war in February 2022, Trump praised Putin’s moves in eastern Ukraine as “savvy” in comments on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,’” he said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-claims-hes-the-putin-whisperer-i-was-the-apple-of-his-eye

[mzmolly]

1. Gross.

[617Blue]

2. The Putin Appeaser nt

[magicarpet]

12. Putie's whore......

Fuck American Democracy,... Putie is trDUMPIE's messianic dream cake.

[617Blue]

14. Trump will end the Ukraine war all right

by cutting of aid and handing it to Putie.

[hatrack]

3. Yeah, we already knew that.

Duh.

[spanone]

4. Bragging about being a traitor....so trumpish

it's easy to rewrite history when every word out of his mouth is a lie

[malaise]

32. He really is desperate for attention

from anyone he thinks is important

[spanone]

35. Soooo tired of it.

[Maeve]

5. The puppet thinks he controls the strings

[underpants]

11. 👀

[Maeve]

25. Also great analogy!

[C Moon]

6. More like the dingleberry in his butt.

[underpants]

7. Giggling

[SallyHemmings]

8. He is batsh*t crazy

[bucolic_frolic]

9. You were selling the country out to him, no wonder he's your buddy. /nt

[CanonRay]

10. You were the lips on his ass

[Chainfire]

13. I believe that Trump is insane.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Useful Idiot is being a useful idiot.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie. You blithering moron.

[stuck in the middle]

16. You're The Apple Of My Eye · Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars

[brush]

17. Funny how the worm has turned for both of these two since Helsinki. trump...

once a president but now a four-times indicted criminal suspect — running again to stay out of prison; and Putin, once considered a cunning puppet master in control of trump, but now a war criminal who made a huge miscalculation in invading Ukraine, whose future in control of Russia is now tenuous with the likes of Prigozhin and his Wagner group forces still at liberty in the country to do who knows what.

In a year we'll know better of the fate of these pretenders.

[wnylib]

18. So pathetic. A grown man who could never please

his abusive father enough so he seeks out a brutal dictator and imagines that the dictator loves him like his daddy never did.

[Brainfodder]

19. He is creating his own hard to test recommendations as usual, PUTIN? Seriously?

PLEASE keep talking about PUTIN Donald!

2 losers who deserve each other, wouldn't that be a fun MMA bout to watch, NOT SURE WHO TO ROOT FOR?

[speak easy]

21. Putin is a Judo black belt

[NCjack]

22. Trump has Russian loans and payments must be made. Statements by Trump

are likely a means of loan payments. The MAGA base may someday "woke" up and realize that they are the ones making Trump's loan payments + legal bills.

[Irish_Dem]

20. He's telling us how easily Putin manipulated him.

With flattery.

[Attilatheblond]

27. He's gotta keep reliving his delusions in hopes of keeping some of the MAGAs with him

Am looking for a greeting card to send, something along the lines of 'Have fun in the asylum'.

[Irish_Dem]

28. We will probably see more of this narcissistic grandiosity

The more he is indicted and his crimes are highly publicized.

He will compensate with tall tales.

[William769]

23. Wasn't he impeached about Ukraine?

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[NowISeetheLight]

24. Gross

Sounds like pillow talk after the act or something.

[Cha]

26. We Know you Stupid MF. how's that

working out?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. 'Useful American idiot' Trump facing furious backlash for boasting about Putin closeness

The concept that TFG is bragging about being a 'useful American idiot' amuses me. TFG was elected by Putin and was Putin's puppet when TFG was in office. Putin is hoping that TFG is re-elected so that TFG can give Putin Ukraine and finish destroying NATO.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-backlash-putin/

Donald Trump saying he was the "apple" of Vladimir Putin's eye is sparking some harsh criticism.

Trump, who has long been open about having a good relationship with the Russian president, reportedly said in a Fox interview that Putin never would have invaded Ukraine if he had been president. "I was the apple of his eye," the former president said in the interview.

The response was swift.....

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss took a more historical approach:

"Never heard Truman boast of being the 'apple' of Stalin’s eye," he said.

Ron Filipkowski, a former Republican, had an extremely simple response.

"Yeah, we know. Putin’s most useful American idiot," he wrote.

[speak easy]

31. "Never heard Truman boast of being the 'apple' of Stalin's eye" (!)

[sinkingfeeling]

30. Putin was already in Ukraine when you were president, Idiot.

[ellie]

33. What a fucking

weirdo

[prodigitalson]

34. holster says what?

[Wingus Dingus]

36. How fascinating that Russia is conquering us from the inside, with the aid of the (former)

Party of Reagan--the irony! Have to hand it to them, that's a real coup. On top of the other actual coup.