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kentuck

(115,508 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 08:55 PM Wednesday

If not for the Russian press, we would not have known this?

But, this morning, Donald Trump had a phone call for 90 minutes with Vladimir Putin.

For ninety minutes.

Obviously that was more than enough time to say hello and how is your family? What did they discuss?

Coincidentally, today the Congress was able to get the Administration to release $400 million dollars to Ukraine.

But, when do people start asking more questions about this relationship between Trump and Putin?

"Russia, Russia, Russia" is hardly the answer the American people need.

It is time to face some harsh realities.

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If not for the Russian press, we would not have known this? (Original Post) kentuck Wednesday OP
Russian asset who wears an American flag pin vapor2 Wednesday #1
And lives in our WH. 2naSalit Wednesday #3
Or EuterpeThelo Wednesday #13
Indeed! 2naSalit Wednesday #15
NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER FORGET: AZ8theist Thursday #50
"Russia, Russia, Russia" is indeed the answer to the question "Who is Trump working for?" Fozzledick Wednesday #2
I think that that call is perfectly normal... -misanthroptimist Wednesday #4
Maybe Putin was telling the story SocialDemocrat61 Wednesday #5
It does take a few minutes to download the latest program into his fat-clogged circuits. erronis Wednesday #6
So if the Russian press reports this mountain grammy Wednesday #7
Just another shrug KS Toronado Thursday #36
So good to see you..made my day! mountain grammy Thursday #38
Glad I could help. KS Toronado Thursday #47
Ya know Jilly_in_VA Thursday #51
Current admin getting permission to deliver money that pesky congress promised questionseverything Wednesday #8
I have to believe popsdenver Wednesday #9
As far as I can tell, this Congress answers only to Trump... ananda Wednesday #17
I think you are right on! popsdenver Thursday #28
So true, and so confusing to really get and understand... ananda Thursday #43
REPUBLICAN CONGRESS dave99 Thursday #37
Perhaps the cheerleaders can scold DUers for speculating. Orrex Wednesday #10
Putin reamed him out for ninety minutes straight. Marcuse Wednesday #11
Exactly like Putin did last time popsdenver Thursday #46
Some talking head with Kaitlin Collins used the term... SleeplessinSoCal Wednesday #12
90 mins with DJT Nasruddin Wednesday #14
Well I imagine it's like the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the king of swamp castle Ray Bruns Thursday #30
I wonder who did the translation of Russian into complete gibberish and vice verse? Botany Wednesday #16
Recommended H2O Man Wednesday #18
Dozing Donnie is our Viktor Yanukovych Hassler Wednesday #19
What makes you say that? usonian Wednesday #20
It took longer because Malignia Ilsa Wednesday #21
The actual content was fifteen minutes... littlemissmartypants Wednesday #22
If it weren't for Meidastouch I would not have known... BigmanPigman Wednesday #23
It is in the Guardian.... reACTIONary Wednesday #24
Trump later said: "We had a very good conversation, I've known him (Putin) a long time." Botany Thursday #42
Maybe, maybe not.... reACTIONary Thursday #44
It's in Politico.... reACTIONary Wednesday #25
Ain't happening, less Putin is dead. dave99 Thursday #39
It's in Reuters... reACTIONary Wednesday #26
Donnie getting reamed for releasing money to Ukraine Bayard Thursday #27
After reading this post. Blue Full Moon Thursday #29
90 minutes on the phone with Donald Trump bloviating about his ballroom and how he won the 2020 election. Ray Bruns Thursday #31
Agent of Putin Kid Berwyn Thursday #32
Well I imagine it's like the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the king of swamp castle Ray Bruns Thursday #33
It was... Ol Janx Spirit Thursday #34
Receiving his progress report and latest marching orders dlk Thursday #35
"Russia, Russia, Russia" Mr.Bee Thursday #40
It is well past time to declare DJT a Russian asset. Ford_Prefect Thursday #41
Smoochin' for 90 minutes moondust Thursday #45
... Faux pas Thursday #48
I imagine that's far more time..... SergeStorms Thursday #49
Harsh realities like TRUMP is 'the enemy within?' B.See Thursday #52
DONALD tRUMP works for VLADIMR PUTIN Blue Owl Thursday #53
As for why now? Russian bloggers claim Russia's Central Bank has frozen all depositor funds. pecosbob Thursday #54
One Very Real Problem DallasNE Thursday #55

Fozzledick

(3,924 posts)
2. "Russia, Russia, Russia" is indeed the answer to the question "Who is Trump working for?"
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:00 PM
Wednesday

Don't ever forget or let them gloss over it.

-misanthroptimist

(1,824 posts)
4. I think that that call is perfectly normal...
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:09 PM
Wednesday

...if wee Donny is a Russian asset. (See: Occam's Razor)

erronis

(24,358 posts)
6. It does take a few minutes to download the latest program into his fat-clogged circuits.
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:31 PM
Wednesday

Expect a whole new set of idiotic spewings until the next reprogramming.

KS Toronado

(23,781 posts)
36. Just another shrug
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:34 AM
Thursday

Our press keeps their mouth shut about most anything negative about diaperdon for fear of lawsuits.

Jilly_in_VA

(14,553 posts)
51. Ya know
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:40 PM
Thursday

he's so busy suing everyone that hardly anything gets through the system, it just ties us the courts, so why worry? He will probably be dead soon anyway. I swear we are living through a "Weekend at Bernie's".

popsdenver

(2,517 posts)
9. I have to believe
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:47 PM
Wednesday

that the 2025 Republicans really really don't like the fact that trump isn't answering to them exclusively, but he has another Master: Putin who he is trying to appease.......

ananda

(35,408 posts)
17. As far as I can tell, this Congress answers only to Trump...
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:51 PM
Wednesday

not the other way around as it should be.

This means they both answer to the oligarchs who
want money and power to stay in their hands and
then rule the world through AI data centers...

if that makes any sense at all.

popsdenver

(2,517 posts)
28. I think you are right on!
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 01:07 AM
Thursday

Also, all of the Republican Senators, Republican House Members, AND the Republican Supreme Court Justices are soooo stupid they haven't yet realized that there is NO Judicial Branch, and NO Legislative Branch in a Dictatorship/Tyranny......LOL

ananda

(35,408 posts)
43. So true, and so confusing to really get and understand...
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:39 PM
Thursday

after always taking suffrage and human rights for granted.

Marcuse

(9,070 posts)
11. Putin reamed him out for ninety minutes straight.
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:21 PM
Wednesday
Coincidentally, today the Congress was able to get the Administration to release $400 million dollars to Ukraine.

popsdenver

(2,517 posts)
46. Exactly like Putin did last time
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 02:08 PM
Thursday

in Alaska.......Trump came out of that meeting, tail tucked between his legs, looking like a beaten dog, whimpering all the way back to Washington......

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,436 posts)
12. Some talking head with Kaitlin Collins used the term...
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:24 PM
Wednesday

"Russia, Russia, Russia" as part of a conversation about the "8647" and Comey. He said it twice. It means nothing. Russia interfered in the 2016 election and the entire Republican Party today doesn't care. Or are grateful.

Nasruddin

(1,294 posts)
14. 90 mins with DJT
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:31 PM
Wednesday

Can you imagine what that must be like?
I suppose it's repeating the same one minute instruction, 90 times.

Ray Bruns

(6,628 posts)
30. Well I imagine it's like the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the king of swamp castle
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:17 AM
Thursday

Tries to explain to his guards to keep the prince in his room.
https://m.

H2O Man

(79,202 posts)
18. Recommended
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:53 PM
Wednesday

I think that the most significant thing from the conversation was Putin telling the felon that if he re-starts the military attack on Iran, there will be harsh consequences. I do not anticipate the media to focus on this. Hence, I will be watching some pod casts.

Ilsa

(64,503 posts)
21. It took longer because Malignia
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:31 PM
Wednesday

was busy with the pool boy and couldnt translate Trump's gibberish into English for the Russian translator.

littlemissmartypants

(34,207 posts)
22. The actual content was fifteen minutes...
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:39 PM
Wednesday

That's allowing for the translation time and the naps DJ kept dozing into during the time it took for the translation.

BigmanPigman

(55,453 posts)
23. If it weren't for Meidastouch I would not have known...
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:42 PM
Wednesday
?si=D87Q_Wf0DKt79fXz

Thank goodness for liberal podcasts!!!!! Getting your news/info via MSM is 100% BS!!!!! I have to teach my mother how to get podcasts since she is misinformed or gets information 48 hours after it actually occurs. She's 91 so it will take a lot of convincing. My sister is more open to getting fact from non-MSM sources.

Mary Trump had a podcast today (I posted it in the video forum) and I learned more from her interview than I did from listening to MS NOW for 2 hours while I was dealing with IRS tech issues.

reACTIONary

(7,266 posts)
24. It is in the Guardian....
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:44 PM
Wednesday

.. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/trump-and-putin-discuss-iran-war-and-float-temporary-ukraine-ceasefire-in-call

Trump later said: “We had a very good conversation, I’ve known him a long time.”

The US president said Putin offered his help to take Iran’s buried uranium to Russia, but Trump said he preferred for the Russian president to be “involved with ending the war in Ukraine”.

Trump reiterated that he believed a deal to end the Ukraine conflict was close. Despite repeated US statements to that effect, the two sides remain far from any lasting settlement.

Botany

(77,728 posts)
42. Trump later said: "We had a very good conversation, I've known him (Putin) a long time."
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:32 PM
Thursday

So did Trump talk to Putin about Russian satellites providing real time data and images of U.S. bases,
personal, ships, and aircraft in the Middle East so Iran could use their Chinese made jet powered drones
with sophisticated anti radar and tracking technology?

Trump is owned by Putin.

reACTIONary

(7,266 posts)
44. Maybe, maybe not....
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:47 PM
Thursday

.... my point in posting this was to show that the western liberal press is reporting on this and directly questioning the administration about it.

reACTIONary

(7,266 posts)
25. It's in Politico....
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:46 PM
Wednesday

.... https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/trump-putin-call-ukraine-iran-00899016

President Donald Trump projected confidence that a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war would come “relatively quickly” after a phone call with President Vladimir Putin Wednesday in which the two leaders discussed their countries’ respective conflicts with Kyiv and Tehran.

“I think he’d like to see a solution,” Trump told reporters in an Oval Office press conference. “I can tell you. And that’s good.”

reACTIONary

(7,266 posts)
26. It's in Reuters...
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:58 PM
Wednesday
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-discussed-ukraine-ceasefire-with-putin-2026-04-29/

Trump, speaking to reporters ⁠as he met with astronauts from the Artemis II mission in the Oval Office, ​said he suggested "a little bit of a ceasefire" in the war in Ukraine in his ​phone call with the Russian leader.

"And I think he might do that," Trump said, then asked reporters whether Putin had already announced a ceasefire.

Bayard

(30,125 posts)
27. Donnie getting reamed for releasing money to Ukraine
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:27 AM
Thursday

Was this another one where there was no note-taking allowed, and the interpreter was killed afterward?

Ray Bruns

(6,628 posts)
31. 90 minutes on the phone with Donald Trump bloviating about his ballroom and how he won the 2020 election.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:20 AM
Thursday

The only thing that would make me feel bad for Vladimir Putin.

Kid Berwyn

(24,904 posts)
32. Agent of Putin
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:20 AM
Thursday

Donald J Trump represents the most successful spy operation of all time. And thanks to Just-us John Roberts redefining the meaning of "Insurrection" and the very words of the Constitution of the United States of America, an active Russian agent has been allowed to return to the Oval Office to again "serve" as the pee-resident.



Normally, I'd say: "Think about that!" But, destroying truth is what tyrants do. It's why they hate a free press.

It's why trumpf is doing all he can to sue anyone who ever wrote anything bad about him. Now he has the DoJ doing his dirty work and handing the legal bill to the U.S. taxpayer.

The photo of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and dip above was taken by TASS, the official Russian news agency. The US media were not informed about the 2017 visit. We learned about it because the Unstable Moron himself spread the pic proudly on social media.

How many people do you know who’ve seen that picture or the one below, taken on an earlier date in the Oval Office? Again, very few.



“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to The Times. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.”

"I'm not under investigation," he added.


Sources:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/10/527755991/trump-meets-with-russias-lavrov-at-the-white-house-today

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nut-job-james-comey-russia-2017-5

And this is the man leading the "restructuring of American government" today winking at Putin at a diplomatic affair during his first madministration.



No wonder Putin, the Kremlin and the GRU and whatever the KGB is called these days call him "America's Gorbachev." Gorby sped up the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Now Putin has returned the favor.

Ray Bruns

(6,628 posts)
33. Well I imagine it's like the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the king of swamp castle
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:23 AM
Thursday

Tried to explain to his guards to keep the prince in his room.
https://m.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,061 posts)
34. It was...
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:44 AM
Thursday

...ten minutes of talking and 80 minutes of snoring interspersed with Putin saying, "Donny? Are you there?"

There's no way President [REDACTED] has the attention span to talk to Vlad for 90 minutes about anything--not even the bunkerroom.

Like his press conferences or his rallies, you know these calls follow some basic predictable script:
5 minutes of, "oh what a horrible thing [insert thing here] was."
5 minutes of, "my enemies are all to blame."
10 minutes of, "big strong people with tears in their eyes."
20 minutes of, "enough about you let's talk about me some more."
1 minute of, "okay, what have you been up to?"
20 minutes of snoring.
1 minute of, "yeah, yeah, I'm here...that's just awful."
20 more minutes of snoring.
5 minutes of, "let's talk again soon, the interior designers are here with something important to talk about."

Something like that.

dlk

(13,315 posts)
35. Receiving his progress report and latest marching orders
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:50 AM
Thursday

He is so clearly compromised and the mainstream media yawns.

Remember the endless hysteria over Hunter Biden’s laptop?

Ford_Prefect

(8,650 posts)
41. It is well past time to declare DJT a Russian asset.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:30 PM
Thursday

This has been known since the '90s. Why have the alphabet security agencies held back on this????
More Epstein/ Bibi/ RW Oligarch influences???

moondust

(21,333 posts)
45. Smoochin' for 90 minutes
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 01:25 PM
Thursday

with a murderous war criminal may have some benefits for both: more war help for the Kremlin and more election help for the Krook.

B.See

(8,718 posts)
52. Harsh realities like TRUMP is 'the enemy within?'
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:56 PM
Thursday

Some are resistant to harsh realities, I think.

pecosbob

(8,475 posts)
54. As for why now? Russian bloggers claim Russia's Central Bank has frozen all depositor funds.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 06:16 PM
Thursday

DallasNE

(8,019 posts)
55. One Very Real Problem
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 07:24 PM
Thursday

Is determining the simple truth of the matter. Not long ago, when Trump's hand bruises were attributed to heavy handshaking. when they were more consistent with weekly IV treatments. Today, Trump was obviously speaking about the Iran war, but mentioned Ukraine instead. Rather than admitting to misspeaking, the Trump people changed the subject, saying Trump was speaking more broadly about wars in general. Oops, wars in general don't have 159 ships that are all underwater. And that Ukraine has already lost the war. That would be news to Zelenskyy.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/trump-faces-scrutiny-after-mixing-up-ukraine-war-with-iran-conflict-during-oval-office-qa-watch-14005926.html

We have Congressional elections coming up in just over 6 months, and the American people are in the dark about events all around the world. How can they cast an informed vote under these circumstances? What a total mess.

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