Putin made a show of crossing the new Crimea bridge. But he was upstaged by a cat
Source: National Post
President Vladimir Putins handlers had thought of nearly everything for the christening of a $4 billion bridge linking Russia to Crimea.
Dressed in blue jeans and ditching his tie, Putin jumped into the drivers seat of an orange dump truck Tuesday and drove across the bridge with cameras recording every move.
One camera in the cab of the truck captured his small talk with a construction worker who was along for the ride and broadcast it across state media.
The imagery was deliberate: Putin was sealing his disputed 2014 annexation of Crimea with a project strongly condemned as illegal by the West.
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But there was one hitch: Putin was actually beaten across the bridge.
Not by saboteurs or protesters or a stage-stealing, fate-sealing politician but by the orange-and-white cat that roamed the bridge the day before.
Mostik, the adopted mascot of construction workers in the project, boasted to his nearly 35,000 Instagram followers Monday that he had already traversed the bridge, a full day before Putins first crossing.
Read more: http://nationalpost.com/news/world/putin-made-a-show-of-crossing-the-new-crimea-bridge-but-he-was-upstaged-by-a-cat
Go Mostik!
MythosMaster
(445 posts)meet an untimely mysterious death.
eggplant
(3,917 posts)And falling out a window doesn't count. He can survive that.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts)unblock
(52,442 posts)hmm....
iscooterliberally
(2,865 posts)Heck I would rather just close the executive branch for next few years. No president would be better than what we have now.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)good one!
IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)before they make him disappear mysteriously
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)after having been released from the KGOP moral cesspool of sAtAn, or whatever (got to bone up on my eNd tiMes repube oCCulTism and stuff).
Dopers_Greed
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(12,456 posts)RainCaster
(10,944 posts)He ran for POTUS in 2016- it's in Wikipedia
C Moon
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