Question about the Alaska meeting

[DemMedic]

If trump and putin were the only ones in the limo, how were they communicating? Putin supposedly only speaks a little English (which I don't believe) and trump barely speaks it as well.

[Walleye]

1. Putin speaks English very well. He's just too snobbish to do it most of the time. KGB trained

[DemMedic]

2. Thank you.

[Walleye]

3. Did you ever see the clip of him singing Blueberry Hill?

It’s very well done back in 2013. I think it’s some banquet. He takes the microphone and does a karaoke on “Blueberry Hill”

[Shermann]

5. I think there is diplomacy involved as well

It's too easy to misspeak in a language that isn't your native one. Best to let the interpreters accurately translate everything when the subject is an active war.

[hlthe2b]

4. Putin IS fluent in English. When he first returned to power 25 or more years ago he did a US tour

and I heard an interview with him on NPR without a translator. His English was fluent, albeit accented.

(When I heard MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell claim otherwise, I was incensed. How could she, of all people, fail to remember his first American propaganda tour all those years ago... Damn! )