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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf not for the Russian press, we would not have known this?
But, this morning, Donald Trump had a phone call for 90 minutes with Vladimir Putin.
For ninety minutes.
Obviously that was more than enough time to say hello and how is your family? What did they discuss?
Coincidentally, today the Congress was able to get the Administration to release $400 million dollars to Ukraine.
But, when do people start asking more questions about this relationship between Trump and Putin?
"Russia, Russia, Russia" is hardly the answer the American people need.
It is time to face some harsh realities.
vapor2
(4,784 posts)2naSalit
(103,784 posts)what's left of it, anyway.
2naSalit
(103,784 posts)AZ8theist
(7,523 posts)
Fozzledick
(3,924 posts)Don't ever forget or let them gloss over it.
-misanthroptimist
(1,743 posts)...if wee Donny is a Russian asset. (See: Occam's Razor)
SocialDemocrat61
(7,883 posts)of how they murdered the Kings cousins in 1918.
erronis
(24,236 posts)Expect a whole new set of idiotic spewings until the next reprogramming.
mountain grammy
(29,125 posts)Will our press pick it up or just shrug?
KS Toronado
(23,747 posts)Our press keeps their mouth shut about most anything negative about diaperdon for fear of lawsuits.
mountain grammy
(29,125 posts)KS Toronado
(23,747 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,521 posts)he's so busy suing everyone that hardly anything gets through the system, it just ties us the courts, so why worry? He will probably be dead soon anyway. I swear we are living through a "Weekend at Bernie's".
questionseverything
(11,899 posts)popsdenver
(2,483 posts)that the 2025 Republicans really really don't like the fact that trump isn't answering to them exclusively, but he has another Master: Putin who he is trying to appease.......
ananda
(35,381 posts)not the other way around as it should be.
This means they both answer to the oligarchs who
want money and power to stay in their hands and
then rule the world through AI data centers...
if that makes any sense at all.
popsdenver
(2,483 posts)Also, all of the Republican Senators, Republican House Members, AND the Republican Supreme Court Justices are soooo stupid they haven't yet realized that there is NO Judicial Branch, and NO Legislative Branch in a Dictatorship/Tyranny......LOL
ananda
(35,381 posts)after always taking suffrage and human rights for granted.
dave99
(121 posts)Orrex
(67,306 posts)Hmm...
Marcuse
(9,065 posts)popsdenver
(2,483 posts)in Alaska.......Trump came out of that meeting, tail tucked between his legs, looking like a beaten dog, whimpering all the way back to Washington......
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,435 posts)"Russia, Russia, Russia" as part of a conversation about the "8647" and Comey. He said it twice. It means nothing. Russia interfered in the 2016 election and the entire Republican Party today doesn't care. Or are grateful.
Nasruddin
(1,290 posts)Can you imagine what that must be like?
I suppose it's repeating the same one minute instruction, 90 times.
Ray Bruns
(6,597 posts)Tries to explain to his guards to keep the prince in his room.
https://m.
Botany
(77,681 posts)H2O Man
(79,185 posts)I think that the most significant thing from the conversation was Putin telling the felon that if he re-starts the military attack on Iran, there will be harsh consequences. I do not anticipate the media to focus on this. Hence, I will be watching some pod casts.
Hassler
(4,946 posts)Another Putin flunky
usonian
(26,196 posts)
Ilsa
(64,491 posts)was busy with the pool boy and couldnt translate Trump's gibberish into English for the Russian translator.
littlemissmartypants
(34,198 posts)That's allowing for the translation time and the naps DJ kept dozing into during the time it took for the translation.
BigmanPigman
(55,435 posts)Thank goodness for liberal podcasts!!!!! Getting your news/info via MSM is 100% BS!!!!! I have to teach my mother how to get podcasts since she is misinformed or gets information 48 hours after it actually occurs. She's 91 so it will take a lot of convincing. My sister is more open to getting fact from non-MSM sources.
Mary Trump had a podcast today (I posted it in the video forum) and I learned more from her interview than I did from listening to MS NOW for 2 hours while I was dealing with IRS tech issues.
reACTIONary
(7,261 posts).. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/trump-and-putin-discuss-iran-war-and-float-temporary-ukraine-ceasefire-in-call
Trump later said: We had a very good conversation, Ive known him a long time.
The US president said Putin offered his help to take Irans buried uranium to Russia, but Trump said he preferred for the Russian president to be involved with ending the war in Ukraine.
Trump reiterated that he believed a deal to end the Ukraine conflict was close. Despite repeated US statements to that effect, the two sides remain far from any lasting settlement.
Botany
(77,681 posts)So did Trump talk to Putin about Russian satellites providing real time data and images of U.S. bases,
personal, ships, and aircraft in the Middle East so Iran could use their Chinese made jet powered drones
with sophisticated anti radar and tracking technology?
Trump is owned by Putin.
reACTIONary
(7,261 posts).... my point in posting this was to show that the western liberal press is reporting on this and directly questioning the administration about it.
reACTIONary
(7,261 posts).... https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/trump-putin-call-ukraine-iran-00899016
President Donald Trump projected confidence that a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war would come relatively quickly after a phone call with President Vladimir Putin Wednesday in which the two leaders discussed their countries respective conflicts with Kyiv and Tehran.
I think hed like to see a solution, Trump told reporters in an Oval Office press conference. I can tell you. And thats good.
dave99
(121 posts)reACTIONary
(7,261 posts)Trump, speaking to reporters as he met with astronauts from the Artemis II mission in the Oval Office, said he suggested "a little bit of a ceasefire" in the war in Ukraine in his phone call with the Russian leader.
"And I think he might do that," Trump said, then asked reporters whether Putin had already announced a ceasefire.
Bayard
(30,060 posts)Was this another one where there was no note-taking allowed, and the interpreter was killed afterward?
Blue Full Moon
(3,589 posts)Trump needs to be removed.
Ray Bruns
(6,597 posts)The only thing that would make me feel bad for Vladimir Putin.
Kid Berwyn
(24,849 posts)Donald J Trump represents the most successful spy operation of all time. And thanks to Just-us John Roberts redefining the meaning of "Insurrection" and the very words of the Constitution of the United States of America, an active Russian agent has been allowed to return to the Oval Office to again "serve" as the pee-resident.

Normally, I'd say: "Think about that!" But, destroying truth is what tyrants do. It's why they hate a free press.
It's why trumpf is doing all he can to sue anyone who ever wrote anything bad about him. Now he has the DoJ doing his dirty work and handing the legal bill to the U.S. taxpayer.
The photo of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and dip above was taken by TASS, the official Russian news agency. The US media were not informed about the 2017 visit. We learned about it because the Unstable Moron himself spread the pic proudly on social media.
How many people do you know whove seen that picture or the one below, taken on an earlier date in the Oval Office? Again, very few.

I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to The Times. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.
"I'm not under investigation," he added.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/10/527755991/trump-meets-with-russias-lavrov-at-the-white-house-today
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nut-job-james-comey-russia-2017-5
And this is the man leading the "restructuring of American government" today winking at Putin at a diplomatic affair during his first madministration.

No wonder Putin, the Kremlin and the GRU and whatever the KGB is called these days call him "America's Gorbachev." Gorby sped up the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Now Putin has returned the favor.
Ray Bruns
(6,597 posts)Tried to explain to his guards to keep the prince in his room.
https://m.
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,051 posts)...ten minutes of talking and 80 minutes of snoring interspersed with Putin saying, "Donny? Are you there?"
There's no way President [REDACTED] has the attention span to talk to Vlad for 90 minutes about anything--not even the bunkerroom.
Like his press conferences or his rallies, you know these calls follow some basic predictable script:
5 minutes of, "oh what a horrible thing [insert thing here] was."
5 minutes of, "my enemies are all to blame."
10 minutes of, "big strong people with tears in their eyes."
20 minutes of, "enough about you let's talk about me some more."
1 minute of, "okay, what have you been up to?"
20 minutes of snoring.
1 minute of, "yeah, yeah, I'm here...that's just awful."
20 more minutes of snoring.
5 minutes of, "let's talk again soon, the interior designers are here with something important to talk about."
Something like that.
dlk
(13,307 posts)He is so clearly compromised and the mainstream media yawns.
Remember the endless hysteria over Hunter Bidens laptop?
Mr.Bee
(1,883 posts)Ford_Prefect
(8,639 posts)This has been known since the '90s. Why have the alphabet security agencies held back on this????
More Epstein/ Bibi/ RW Oligarch influences???
moondust
(21,329 posts)with a murderous war criminal may have some benefits for both: more war help for the Kremlin and more election help for the Krook.
Faux pas
(16,490 posts)SergeStorms
(20,731 posts)than he spent formulating an attack on Iran.
B.See
(8,672 posts)Some are resistant to harsh realities, I think.
Blue Owl
(59,449 posts)it is that simple.
pecosbob
(8,464 posts)DallasNE
(8,019 posts)Is determining the simple truth of the matter. Not long ago, when Trump's hand bruises were attributed to heavy handshaking. when they were more consistent with weekly IV treatments. Today, Trump was obviously speaking about the Iran war, but mentioned Ukraine instead. Rather than admitting to misspeaking, the Trump people changed the subject, saying Trump was speaking more broadly about wars in general. Oops, wars in general don't have 159 ships that are all underwater. And that Ukraine has already lost the war. That would be news to Zelenskyy.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/trump-faces-scrutiny-after-mixing-up-ukraine-war-with-iran-conflict-during-oval-office-qa-watch-14005926.html
We have Congressional elections coming up in just over 6 months, and the American people are in the dark about events all around the world. How can they cast an informed vote under these circumstances? What a total mess.