Trump: Putin's Fooled A Lot Of People, I've Realized The Talk Is Meaningless

Real Clear Politics ^ | 7/14/2025 | Tim Haines

[marcusmaximus]

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I go home, I tell the First Lady, "I spoke to Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation."

She said, "Oh really? Another city was just hit."

So it's like, look, he's— I don't want to say he's an assassin, but he's a tough guy. It's been proven over the years. He's fooled a lot of people. He fooled Bush. He fooled a lot of people. He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden. He didn't fool me.

But what I do say is that at a certain point, you know, ultimately talk—talk doesn't—it's got to be action. It's got to be results. And I hope he does it.

It's potentially such a great country to be wasting so many people on this. And the money—and look at what's happened to his economy. Look at what's happened.

And with the threat in 50 days—we’ll be hit very hard. I mean, look, I hope—I hope he's going to do it. He knows the deal. He knows what a fair deal is—if there is such a thing as a fair deal. There’s no winners here. This is a loser. This is a loser.

And I dealt with him from the beginning. And it wouldn't have happened. But I will say—Ukraine was the apple of his eye. We talk about it. It was the apple of his eye. But it wasn't gonna happen. And he understood that it wasn't gonna happen.

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[McGruff]

[Russia] is blowing up buildings, with children, with women, with professionals, with people, just people, they're blowing up indiscriminately. They're just shooting massive missiles and rockets into these buildings and everybody is dying."

It doesn't help his credibility if he says things like this.

[Dat]

It figures. Russia uber-alles. Trump was a god to the FRussians when he was a seen as supporting Russia’s claims. As predicted they turned against him when he finally saw that Russia was in the wrong.

[Republican Wildcat]

He always knew that - he was buttering them up and being overly nice to try to get them to the table. It didn’t work...really that kind of stuff doesn’t work with the Russians.

[MotorCityBuck]

Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/VR-QqLNQ0Ak
Ukies really ramping up the retreat towards Victory 😉

[Apparatchik]

The most notable part is that yes, Trump tried to make nice with Putin to get him to end the war. That he failed is not his fault - it is the butcher Putin’s refusal to be reasonable. Trump is showing great wisdom and strength of character by changing tactics, which will be very painful for Putin and the Russian people. Again, this was not driven by any animus Trump has for Poopin, but by Poopin’s own poor decisions.

[StAnDeliver]

“The most luxurious, Trumptastic bait of all time...”

[StAnDeliver]

"It doesn't help his credibility if he says things like this."

IF?

Clink that link in that post, crime dawg...this was TrumpII idgaf truth-telling at the beginning of Putlim's war, TrumpII at the top of his game...

It was TrumpII's brand of raw, unfiltered foreign policy honesty -- instead of Kissingerbutt-style realpolitick or The White Hospice's Anthony Blinkenandyoumissedthepayoffs -- that paved the road for the TrumpII 2024 revenge triumph.

[tlozo]

And the push by the ukraine bros to push the U.S. into giving everything away

You mean the push by Trump, to get weapons to Ukraine

[Svartalfiar]

Putin has been nothing but honest about its requirements to end the war.

And Ukraine has been honest the whole time about wanting Russia to go home. Too bad these two just never lined up!