"It makes me think that maybe he [Putin] 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!!!", Trump wrote.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 46 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump literally always copies the stance of the last person he had a 1-on-1 with.
Which is either really dumb politics – or really smart advertizing, if his goal is to maximize profits at Mar-a-Lago.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More-or-less. They literally just had an article about this: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/19/inside-trump-mindset-tariffs

"We saw it in business with Trump," one adviser said. "He would have these meetings and everyone would agree, and then we would just pray that when he left the office and got on the elevator that the doorman wouldn't share his opinion, because there would be a 50/50 chance [Trump] would suddenly side with the doorman."

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

Dude’s got the attention span of a gnat

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Wait a week.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s almost like the US position on Ukraine prior to his current circus was the right one. Almost as though the Clown King must touch the skillet to learn that it will burn him rather than accept the wisdom of those who came before him and said, “DO NOT EVER TRUST VLADIMIR FUCKING PUTIN!”