Summary
Donald Trump lashed out at media reports claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin kept his envoy, Steve Witkoff, waiting for over eight hours in a “power play.”
Sky News reported the delay, but Trump denied it on Truth Social, calling the story fake and the media “sick degenerates.” He insisted there was “no wait whatsoever” and that discussions were productive.
Trump also faced criticism for repeating Putin’s claims about Ukrainian troops being surrounded.
Witkoff left Moscow without securing a ceasefire agreement.
This makes me pretty sure that Putin kept Witkoff waiting for over 8 hours. Putin is notorious for using this as a power tactic, and generally speaking, I find that most things orangeboi denies are true.
Of course, the FSB was extremely frustrated at the media while posting on Trump’s truth social account
But Putin does this all the time. Like, all the time. He’s well known for it, even among people that support him. Putin’s all about these sort of bullshit power play games, that’s why he also has that comedically long table he sits at.
I still cant believe this person is the US president. If I had to explain this to aliens, I guess I would say something along the lines of “the media is controlled and voting is therefore also controlled”. Also humans in USA are overworked, stressed, overweight, tired, have almost no vacations or public health care. It all contributes to not being able to think properly.
Many of those things you mentioned are why people didn’t vote as well… We do not get any time off to vote, and many states don’t allow mail-in ballots.
Its such a strange country… In Sweden, they put the election on a weekend so people can go vote.
It’s a teamsport and we’re profoundly stupid and tribal.
And apathetic
I’d say that oligarchs had overrun america gradually, sneakily taking all the wealth and power, controlling the media so that the people didn’t fight them off, until hostile foreign oligarchs eventually took advantage of the situation and infiltrated everywhere there was power, even the political system of america.
Drunk on greed, the american oligarchs had been promised that the foreign oligarchs only wanted to rob the people too and it would be mutually beneficial, but by the time anyone realised their true intentions, it was too late.
You might want to work on your Critical Thinking Skills, they are obviously lacking.
It just bewilders me and I’m fairly conservative. He’s so awful. I understand why people voted for him over the dem candidates cos they were awful. But genuinely loving him??? Can’t fathom it
Witkoff left Moscow without securing a ceasefire agreement.
But he was dusting off his knees and wiping his chin, so the meeting was productive.
Dude if Trump finds out someone else blew off Putin he’s gonna be really mad.
Standard projection: they definitely kept the envoys waiting that long
That’s not projection. It’s just plain lying. Compulsive lying if you need to attach something to it.
‘so unfair! we were gonna do that!’
Yep he knows how embarrassing it is for his image
People need to be prepared. They will allow an attack on U.S. soil to hold power. Remember 9/11 and how most didn’t question anything.
Christ this dudes ego is SO delicate lmfao
I take joy knowing that those around him can never rest easy because he will flip out at whatever perceived slight gets telegraphed to him via talking heads
This motherfucker is way past his expiration date.
You should have posted the entire quote:
Trump insisted, “There was no wait whatsoever to accept my unconditional surrender.”
It was simply a 100% tariff on the normal wait time of 4.5 hours.
I love how he confirms stuff like this.
Yeah, “well, there were other meetings going on which had to end first” and “there was absolutely no wait time at all”…
I think I can discern what he meant but couldn’t articulate, but if we have to interpret what a more capable person would have said any time the president speaks…
But since we do have to interpret what he must have meant, my interpretation is that he was trying to say “there was reasonable justification for the wait time, it wasn’t artificially increased as a power-play”. Though a counter argument would be, that is exactly how a power play of artificially increasing wait times is accomplished. Instead of scheduling stuff so that people will be met with at a reasonable time given their circumstances, things are shuffled around to make the person unsure when they are supposed to go in. Enough so that they can’t leave cuz it could be any minute, but long enough that they should feel slighted. 2 hours would be a pretty ridiculous slight. Making someone spend 8 hours in your lobby without leaving is overkill. That means the whole time they kept assuring him it would be soon. At no point did they give him any heads up that he could maybe safely go to lunch or dinner or whatever since it wasn’t gonna be “that” soon.
For these meetings, it is generally considered a normal level of respect for the meeting to occur within an hour of the plane landing. Especially for someone who should be incredibly busy and scheduled to have other meetings in other countries that same day.
8 hours is fully, literally, toying with him. 100% showing how little they respect him and who he represents. 3 or 4 hours would have accomplished a complete and utter embarrassment… they wanted to set a record, just for fun.
i’m sure lil Steve Witkoff has very strict instructions to not undermine the Trump messaging and if asked today, will tell us he was escorted right in!
Like the kid that keeps insisting that his bully is actually his best friend.
Dark popcorn times.
I don’t think anyone should trust Trump or the UK media. The truth is probably that it was 6 or 7 hours and the envoy had a fine time earning Queen bee on Spelling Bee and then got arrogant and played Quordle and threw his phone.
“No one puts
BabyStevie Deals in a corner!”
