Posted on 07/14/2025 12:53:14 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Trump suggested Monday that first lady Melania may have helped convince him to ramp up military aid to Ukraine.
As he explained his decision to get tough on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said his wife was one of the people who directly pointed out to him that Putin always backs out of his promises following their phone calls over a peace deal.
“I go home, I tell the first lady, ‘You know, I spoke to Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ She said, ‘Oh, really? another city was just hit,'” he said, recounting one of their recent calls.
The Kremlin has repeatedly fired ever-escalating waves of drone and missiles attacks at Ukraine following the calls with Trump.
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From Putin's perspective, he rules Russia with an iron fist.
So if he withdraws Russian troops from Ukraine, it is a signal showing his people that he is weak.
Putin knows he cannot allow that to happen.
Putin will continue the war until he conquers Ukraine.
Or continuing to fight the war of attrition. Even if it takes 10 years. Because that will keep him in power.
‘ she just pointed out the contradiction of Putin’s words v actions.’
Something anyone could have done decades ago.
So is this Melania’s war now?
It’s Putin’s war. He’s the invader.
So many “concerned” meters entering new territory...
🙄 probably in Russian. LOL
Trump has been the best president I’ve ever seen for working hard and fast to try to do the things he ran on. I find it so bizarre that after we’ve gotten more from him than we’ve ever been given by a president or political figure before and so unusually quickly, so many people online are pushing the idea that he is doing the opposite.
Trump did not run on letting Russia simply roll over Ukraine and then whatever other place it might want to take. He ran on trying to force a peace agreement between the two sides, and to do that you usually have to actually pressure both sides, which is what he is now trying to do. Yet some online are acting like he ran as pro-Russian and anti-Ukraine, when he did not, or that he promised never to sell anymore weapons to Ukraine, when he did not.
And as far as the Epstein stuff goes, some people are acting like Trump ran on it as a campaign issue, when he only kind of reluctantly said yes when directly asked about it on a podcast. And promises like that can be tricky if you haven’t gone through the materials yet anyway.
I find it so fascinating how many on both the left and right turned Trump into what they wanted him to be in their minds, rather than focusing on what he was actually running on, so even when he does an extraordinary job of accomplishing what he actually ran on (though no one’s perfect) some of his voters are still disappointed and some of his opponents still think he is an imaginary dictator instead of a regular president.
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/VR-QqLNQ0Ak
Ukies really ramping up the retreat towards Victory 😉
She knows first hand what Soviet oppression looks like. I’d listen to her!
100 Percent
I agree, negotiate a cease fire, and tell Zelensky “TOO BAD TOO SAD”
I agree, negotiate a cease fire, and tell Zelensky “TOO BAD TOO SAD”
On the micro level, that was correct of her.
On the MACRO level, WTF was that war in Iraq for?
She can read lips, and can tell when DJT is lying too..... Just a joke.....
We are going to disengage from Ukraine, stay out of NATO’s business, they are a net negative in the world and for the US.... THAT is what I voted for. To pull back from the 110 years of constant war.
100%
Trump was not President in 2024, if he said that it is the first promise he ever kept.
Sorry, but he did run on those things.
The bleeding started with the bombing in Iran and after that he recovered somewhat because he didn’t get us in deeper. But he has managed to make the bleeding far worse now. He needs to pay attention to what his coalition of voters are saying unless he wants 2 years and then it is over.
The Epstein issue was a self inflicted blunder that his own people managed to blunder into so badly that it has turned bleeding into a hemorrhage. He then made it worse by telling voters to shut up and move on while belittling and scolding them. Whenever his admin messes up, the voters get called names and accused of disloyalty for going WTF? Some overly ardent supporters have even said they need to make lists of anyone who has criticized a policy decision. This is ridiculous and sounds like RAT think. It is almost like the admin has a team that works to take an unfortunate situation and make it more damaging.
He had deportation going really great, then he turns around and says some will get to stay.
He has not taken those covid death shots off the market, they have been okayed to shoot into babes.
Endorsing people like Lindsay Graham. Lindsay is an immoral POS and war whore. Trump stood there while Trump supporters booed the hell out of Lindsay at a rally. Those people booed that creep for a reason. Trump can’t rehabilitate that creature and make us like him. He is a blur on Trump’s record.
Trump has great success and each time he sabotages them with another 180 on something else lately. He is getting really bad advice from somewhere. If he wants to float an idea and see the reaction, he should let the idea come from someone other than himself so he can see first how people react before he owns it.
Telling us Melania has told him to do things is not what I want to hear. I didn’t vote for her. She is one vote in the midterms. I like her better in classy fashion and speaking for kids. I like her when she didn’t have a ball hat covering her eyes all the time while sporting drab masculine clothing. I don’t care if fancy fashion magazines never had her all over the cover. We liked her and we didn’t like them. So now we get Dark Melania as a result.
I took POTUS at his word. I watched most of his rallies and always defended him. I even got people to vote for him because he was for transparency and disclosure. I never expected him to be something he never claimed to be. What most of us did not want was George W Bush on foreign policy. Foreign policy is a loser in midterm elections. I can honestly say he came out of the gate in spectacular fashion. People were awed by it. And then...the unnecessary for the moment foreign intervention cooked up by the neocons to derail it all came out of nowhere and appears to be dominating and destroying.
If we lose in midterms, the 💩 is going to hit the fan in MAGA. It was so important in the first half of this term to keep voters on board.
FR isn’t a good place to get the pulse on younger than boomer voters. Many have different viewpoints than people here do.
Disengage from all the countries until America is resurrected and in a good safe prosperous place.
Even Israel. Help them in any way possible, e.g., negotiations, etc., that doesn’t involve our tax money.
Not a good look to hide behind your wife’s skirt. She can have her emotional opinions, but presidential bedwarmers need to stay out of politics.
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