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Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.

The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”.

It was the first time that Zelenskyy and Trump had met face to face after a frosty February encounter in the White House where Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated the Ukrainian leader and accused him of ingratitude for US aid.

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[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 94 points 5 days ago

It's amazing how this man's brain is so feeble that he just fully believes what the last person he met with him tells him.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

I need to see this play out like a heist movie. Two opposing advisors are battling each other to get their idea in his head for the big speech. They get into some zany hijinks trying to be the last to speak to him. Some real spy vs spy stuff.

[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

Inception of the stupid. Written, Directed and Produced by the Coen Brothers.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

I believe that in the medical community this is called Joe Rogan's Disease

[-] ef9357@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Everybody plays him, but he’s not smart enough to see it.

[-] Franklin@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Something odd is happening with the right, seems like they're trying to hedge their bets for blowback.

Trump definitely knew this all along, to say this now seems like damage control.

Then earlier this week Rogan calling out the deportations to El Salvador without a trial, saying it was an overcorrection to the left that has gone too far.

I wonder if the American people will buy it.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

Its weirder than that, had someone on lemmy try to convince me that deportations, purity tests and fascism are all far left policies. Its like they're trying to shift all their own shit onto some imaginary other.

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 22 points 5 days ago

It’s a common take that the left are fascists because we …want LGBTQ+ etc to be accepted. Fucking bizarre.

[-] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Hey hey, we also want people not to starve or go into horrific debt because of medical issues. Super clear indicators of fascism or something.

[-] BigRigButters@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Those are all bidens/obama polices tho

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

And that's why they're not left

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Overcorrection to the LEFT???

[-] Franklin@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

his words not mine but yeah that's what he said

meaning he's over correcting as a response to what the left was doing

[-] BigRigButters@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago

lol this dood is such an idiot

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

Scene: DJT standing awkwardly at a table. Beside him, sitting on the floor is Vladimir Putin with his Entire Arm shoved up DJT's ass.

DJT: I'm starting to think Putin might be manipulating me.

[-] BrinkBreaker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago

I wonder [not to give him any credit] if DJT would be a better president if he were surrounded by actual decent people that were earnest/honest. It feels like it could be in the realm of possibility that he's treating the Ukraine/Russia conflict the way he has simply because the people around him are only giving him a specific narrative surrounding it. Either intentionally, incidentally, due to incompetence or sycophantic attempts to "please" trump.

Maybe this is the first time getting it from Ukraine's point of view, unfiltered.

Doesn't change/nor justify his shitty behavior, but... it makes a kind of sense.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It wouldn't surprise me. We are a product of our environment, and Trump is a very clear example of that. He tends to mimic and amplify whoever he thinks is the strongest/most powerful around him. He's a LeFou in constant search of a Gaston.

[-] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

That's what his first term was. He either doesn't listen to good advice or doesn't care. Either way, it's still a shitshow.

[-] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 days ago

He promised me a reach around!

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I want to offer a long history of how everyone saw this coming but I think "LOL" is the best response

[-] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago
[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 8 points 5 days ago

He's a sharp one, the ol' Donny!

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

The human embodiment of Internet Explorer, everyone.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Holy shit, he might have finally gotten through to that dunce in some small way.

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