Those idiots left the summit seating plan in the hotel printers, according to NPR. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

 

The Keystone clumsiness of this administration should surprise no one anymore. That they control nukes terrifies me. That they are held up as geniuses by millions of voters, a mass delusion of Biblical proportions, fills me with despair. 


Apparently Trump wanted to give "His Excellency" a desk weight as a gift. The sycophancy beggars belief. 

 

I'll leave it to others to speculate on what exactly Trump hopes to gain from so very publicly licking Putin's boots. My favourite explanation so far is Vlad Vexler's idea that Putin provides him with some sort of narcissistic fulfillment.  He desperately craves the approval of someone he looks up to. Putin constantly dangles like a carrot on a stick, permanently just out of reach, just enough for Trump to think he might get it next time. If he just speaks flatteringly enough, if he just makes enough concessions, if he just puts enough pressure on Ukraine. . . 

Putin plays him like a flute. 

It all defies words, but there are a few that come to mind: pusillanimity, cowardice, naivete, cynicism, stupidity, self-abasement, ignorance, delusion, disingenuity, corruption, greed, betrayal, nihilism, evil. . . I could go on. Actually, I can't: I need a break, because the whole things is just too damn sickening (there's another one).