Trump: Putin ‘tapping me along’ with Russia strikes on Ukraine

The Hill ^ | 4/26/2025 | Alex Gangitano

[marcusmaximus]

President Trump on Saturday said he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin may be stringing him along after the latest deadly strikes on Ukraine, as the U.S. seeks to bring an end to the war in Eastern Europe.

“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump posted Saturday on Truth Social. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!”

His post came as the president was traveling back to the U.S. following Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome and after he met briefly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The two leaders spoke ahead of the funeral, their first face-to-face interaction since the contentious Oval Office meeting earlier this year.

The White House has not yet released details on what was discussed during the roughly 15-minute meeting.

Trump’s latest remarks also come in contrast to what he said week ago, when the president insisted “nobody’s playing me.”

[PIF]

Putin may be stringing him along

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You think?

[Dr. Franklin]

why do you zelensky puffers ignore the US / obama coupe in ukraine that overthrew the democratically elected leader of fagboy zelensky bombing his own citizens in eastern ukraine, or that the people in crimea voted to join Russia?

Why do you want to personalize this about Zelinski rather than Putin? Did Zelinski start a war, invade his neighbors, rape and kill their women, kidnap their children, destroy entire cities to show how powerful he is?
Why do you want to believe the results of a forced referendum under military occupation? If Mexico invaded the U.S., reclaimed Texas, Arizon and New Mexico because people there are ethinically Hispanic and speak Spanish, and then held a referendum under military rule, would you accept that as valid too?
When will you have surgery for a doctor to remove your head from up your butt?

[JoSixChip]

I guess a girl can hope.

[Dr. Franklin]

Of course, this is despite Putin having a 90% approval rating from the Russian people and no actual signs that Putin has any credible chance of political collapse any time soon.

Bovine excrement.

[TexasFreeper2009]

duh! everyone knows KGB Putin cant be trusted!

[delta7]

Putin playing games with President Trump. Not smart.
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Trump realizes Vlad still holds all the cards. Sanctions, Swift removal, $$$ billions in western weapons, 40 plus western nations against Russia, stealing Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, everything has Failed.

Vlad will negotiate when his initial three objectives are meet….the Ukie Neo- Nazi problem is the hardest nut to crack.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Clearly Russia is on the brink of collapse and is desperately seeking negotiations as a way out. /s

:-D

[JonPreston]

Hush, NeverTrump foreigner. Peace ☮️ is at hand.

[JonPreston]

Yet you adored CIA Bush.

[captmar-vell]

This whole Ukraine war feels wrong on many levels

How is it that the installed globalist tools, dementia carcass Biden and Anthony Blinken appeared to jump through creative accounting hoops almost daily to get Zelensky USA money to fight the war, . . found a billion dollars here, . . another billion over there. .

Would seem now that Zelensky should be needing urgent funding if President Trump has shut down the endless money train. Did Macron and the EU step up? Why does the ‘war’ appear to always be tit for tat and stop start as needed for either side.

Just conjecture here: is there another intention more nefarious going on and possibly involves a long running effort to neuter the USA and the West, use up its money, weapons and munitions and leave it weaker or even broken and our allies like Taiwan, Israel and South Korea vulnerable. Bind the strongman USA then bring in their New World Order.

All being done after the workings of that demonic Obama creature, with wicked Victoria Nuland lighting the match in 2014, Anthony Blinken, John Brennan and Susan Rice and all their sycophantic State Department tools pushing it forward in the service of Klaus Schwab and the WEF. The same way they purposely abused the USAs power via the SWIFT system knowingly forcing nations to go look somewhere else - creating BRICS.

Not unlike that manufactured conflict in Israel on October 7th 2023. I believe the attack was a setup, a globalist scheme to force change in the Middle East and rewrite narratives to divide Jerusalem and then it got out of hand like the Roman attack on the Temple in 70 AD.

[fireman15]

Bovine excrement.

There is no doubt that you are the resident expert when it comes to Bovine excrement. But, outside of your delusional mind... there is no evidence that Putin is not both very popular and very powerful in Russia. And there is also zero evidence that his administration is close to failing. So like it or not he is a force that must be reckoned with.

Your hero Zelensky is nothing but a sad puppet playing the role that was assigned to him. In the eleven years since the George Soros and Western Intelligence agencies managed to illegally install the first government in Ukraine that was not aligned with Russia since the 9th century... they have managed to waste unimaginable sums of money, kill, maim and disrupt the lives of millions of people. This latest iteration has absolutely zero to do with the well-being, wishes or most of all the “freedom” of the people who live in Ukraine. It is all propaganda and political showmanship of the very worst and most destructive sort.

I have no love for Putin or any Soviet dictator, but this entire botched foreign policy initiative has been nothing but disastrous from start to finish over the past 20 or so years. Only the stooges among us trying to promote idiotic nonsense such as yourself have provided clown show style comic relief. So, I guess we should thank you for that.

Unfortunately the entire developing world has been watching, and it been a complete sh@tshow that has managed to turn BRICs into the most powerful worldwide economic alliance with now more influence that G7, the European Union, and even NATO itself. The rest of the world used to admire and fear the West, now they think of us as a Globo-Homo clown show.

This is what all of your "virtue signaling" nonsense has accomplished. https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-is-master-all-he-surveys-russians-head-polls-2024-03-15/

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/russians-rally-around-putins-foreign-policy

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/europe/russian-support-putin-election-intl-cmd/index.html

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-presidential-election-putin-day-3-win/32864966.html

[cowboyusa]

Gp stuff yourself

[cowboyusa]

When you take a bullet for America, tlmabey then I will care what you have to say.

[Allegra]

“ Wait, wait, wait. I was told they were best buddies!”

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Yes, some zeeps do like to give that impression, don’t they?

“To: marcusmaximus
We will now believe everything that comes out of Russia, since 47 and his Pit Bull have told UKR it will need to accept Russia’s seizure of its land.

Russia uber alles! Free Russian lessons available now.

7 posted on 4/25/2025, 3:36:09 PM by PIF

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4313258/posts?page=7#7

And his current best little gem…

To: E. Pluribus Unum

47 slowly becoming Biden

8 posted on 4/25/2025, 3:27:23 PM by PIF

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4313255/posts?page=8#8

I’m not sure I completely get that one, though. Does he mean President Trump plans to start giving billions and billions of our tax dollars to the Ukrainian Zidget every time he demands it? With no audits, no accountability? 🤔

[cowboyusa]

Sunshine Partiot.

[rrrod]

Putin has all the credibility of an African dictator. He is a white Idi Amine...

[ANKE69]

Get your lazy arse over there and tell Putin yourself, annoying little coward.

[Petrosius]

And while Putin may be popular in Russia, so is Zelensky in Ukraine. And, to use your words, there is no evidence that Zelensky or his predecessor Poroshenko were “installed” by Soros and Western Intelligence. They were both elected by popular vote in an open election, more than can be said about Putin. This whole trope that Zelensky is just a Globalist stooge is pure nonsense.

[SaxxonWoods]

The only question left is how long Ukraine will suffer before making a deal that would have been better for them 2 years ago, 1 year ago, 6 months ago, 3 months ago...

[TexasGator]

“Vlad will negotiate when his initial three objectives are meet…”

Vlad will negotiate when his money runs out.

Russia is going broke. Time is short.