Analysis: Kremlin Power Games Begin: Exposing Melania Nude Photos on State TV
https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/42019
Analysis: Kremlin Power Games Begin: Exposing Melania Nude Photos on State TV
https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/42019
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They got their dog in the kennel. Now they need to continue obedience training so he behaves accordingly.
**EDIT**: Mods removed my post below about Donald Trump’s incompetence. Reposting here:
Trump has never been in control of his life for as long as he’s lived because he’s an emotionally-crippled [victim of parental abuse](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/07/donald-trump-abuse-father-niece-mary-book) with an [untreated learning disability](https://www.divergents-magazine.org/articles/trump-s-likely-struggle-our-nation-s-consequences) who [can’t pay attention to anything](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/intelligence-officials-reportedly-struggle-to-brief-donald-trump-because-hes-a-giant-toddler?srsltid=AfmBOor7h5HdC0HfiNiR8agyRxndVK4Umg3xFgpIVjomDL9EAV96e_iI) for any length of time and literally doesn’t have the emotional or intellectual capacity even to [tell the truth on the witness stand to save himself](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/ex-trump-lawyer-told-mueller-trump-is-too-dumb-to-testify?srsltid=AfmBOorC9UeU9rc0pHgd91URC5sZ26dV1YiZGDEPyB8CXR7uCV5RBTOa).
Most people might have been sleeping or disassociating since 2016. I have not. I have read every book about the administration. I read every press release from Trump’s first tenure in office, I read interviews and reports from people who worked with him, and I simply listened to the things he himself said and wrote and Tweeted.
Trump’s two earlier campaigns in 1988 and 2000 coincided with releases of his book; he ran for President to market himself and sell books, which is all he’s ever done. In 2000 he “[ask(ed) top aide Roger Stone to find the “most eminent hack writer in America” to put Trump’s political ideas into a book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign#:~:text=Critics%20questioned%20the%20seriousness%20of,chance%20to%20win%20the%20election.)”.
He only really ran for POTUS in 2016 [because he was continually trying to renegotiate his Apprentice salary higher](https://people.com/donald-trump-wanted-6-million-apprentice-salary-book-excerpt-8659327) and thought the publicity would improve his position.
He never wanted this job. You could see on a *daily* basis his entire tenure how much he fucking hated doing this job.
He called the White House [‘a dump’](https://time.com/4884923/white-house-donald-trump-dump/).
He [called his own voters who put him there “digusting”](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/sunday-review/trump-supporters.html).
He hates being POTUS nearly as much as most of us hate him being POTUS. He holds nearly as much contempt for his average voter as we do. He reviles occupying the office as much as it reviles us that he occupies it.
Now, going into his second term, his brain is scrambled and he’s going to be forced into doing a job he doesn’t understand and which is beyond his mental capacity, surrounded by people making demands of him day and night, hounding him, not letting him have free access to his phone or golf whenever he wants.
In his first term as President Donald Trump [spent 307 days of his time in office playing golf](https://seattlemedium.com/donald-trump-spent-almost-a-year-playing-golf-during-presidency/), despite insulting Obama for playing golf on the campaign trail and claiming [he would be too busy to play golf as President if he were elected](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74nsdu).
He played golf for an *entire year* of his presidency. After attacking Obama for doing the same.
He’s the laziest fucking person to ever disgrace politics.
If I weren’t so firmly entrenched in the consequences of all of this, Donald Trump’s story would be the fucking funniest comedy ever written. You literally could not write a better comedy than this.
For better or worse Donald Trump is the most *transformative* President in history. He has destroyed and rewritten an entire half of the politicla system. He was handed a mandate and opportunities that nearly any leader in any age would have fucking killed for.
The most tragic irony though, is that Donald Trump is the most *transformative* President in history. And he had at least the *potential*, the *opportunity*, to be the greatest President we ever had.
Party politics has eroded our system to the point of dysfunction. We all know it. People voted for an arsonist because the current system is so broken and divided that they are like animals lashing out at it. Democrat and Republican alike.
So to you Trump voters: I see you. I understand what you *believe* he could be.
Trump could have broken apart the entrenched systems of Democrat and Rpeublican and united us. He could have broken to bits the norms that have kept our system exclusively for the wealthy, he could have made th government truly transparent and effective.
Now believe me when I say that he didn’t do *any* of that in his first term, and he won’t do any of it in his second term, because he’s oafish, impetuous, lazy, narcissistic, and intellectually stunted and incurious and profoundly amoral.
He is [the first-ever convicted felon](https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0) we’ve elected to office, and his first act, if he lasts long enough to make a first act, will to be to dismiss all cases against him and pardon himself in the greatest act of corruption we’ve ever witnessed at this political level.
He surrounds himself with criminals. [Dozens of former people in his administration were convicted of crimes and/or served time](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/cohen-trump-prison-what-matters/index.html). Or one should say criminals are attracted *to* him, because he’s an amoral, guileless stooge who will empower them to commit all manner of corruption without judgment.
And now he’s surrounded by sociopaths who will set the agenda for him. [People like Peter Thiel](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/peter-thiel-donald-trump-vance-hulk-hogan/), who [groomed and installed Trump’s current VP, JD Vance.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/).
Thiel, who thanks to Democracy just won extraordinary power, [doesn’t believe in Democracy and is involved in politics to destroy it](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/), which is perhaps why a lot of us view Donald Trump’s second term as an existential threat to Democracy.
You know. Because of all the people surrounding him who have said they want to destroy Democracy. What you need to understand is despite all that – despite the grand criminal ambitions of people around him, Donald Trump is not like that. Donald Trump’s crimes are all baser, savage crimes of opportunity.
[Stealing documents to sell to a highest bidder.](https://news.wttw.com/2023/06/08/donald-trump-says-he-s-been-indicted-charges-mishandling-classified-documents)
[Paying off a porn star and not discolsing it on forms](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/30/trump-indicted-in-porn-star-hush-money-payment-case-00089837).
[Lying on all his business documents](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/fact-check-trump-claims-documents-investigation/index.html).
He’s a relentless pathological liar who will do anything in each moment of his life to benefit himself regardless of hte cost to others or even the consequence to himself.
But he’s not a *good* liar. And we know this because when it matters – when he’s in a position where lying will present consequences for him, such as in court, he cannot maintain a lie to save himself.
[His own laywers have said he is too dumb to testify](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/ex-trump-lawyer-told-mueller-trump-is-too-dumb-to-testify?srsltid=AfmBOorC9UeU9rc0pHgd91URC5sZ26dV1YiZGDEPyB8CXR7uCV5RBTOa).
He couldn’t resist [petulant and egregiously self-incriminating remarks on the witness stand in the NY case](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-made-sharply-self-incriminating-statementglenn-kirschner-1971272) because he refuses to prep with his lawyers because he is impatient and a fucking idiot.
He can lie with *conviction* but he can’t remember the lie he just told a second ago.
All of this to say, he knows he’s fucked, and he’s miserable. That’s why you [haven’t seen him gloating this time around](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/07/trump-x-truth-social-djt-election.html). Have you ever in the last ten years known this fucking idiot to shut the fuck up, *especially* after probably the greatest underdog victory of his life?
And now that he’s in power, Putin and Netanyahu and the Heritage Foundation and all those deplorable crooks that helped get in him power and going to work him to fucking death, and he knows it and can’t do a thing to stop it, because those people understand power. Those people cultivate it. Putin and Thiel and all these people are monsters, but they’re patient, and strategic, and calculating, and Donald Trump is an idiot in a diaper who just wants a diet coke and doesn’t give a fuck who dies for him to get it.
And all the people deifying him and painting his likeness on barns will never know how much Donald Trump fucking hates them. How little he regards them. How vile and repulsive he finds them. How much he laments that *they* are the ones who exemplify him.
It’s all so fucking funny. Or would be, if not for the fact it’s real and a lot of people are going to get hurt and die because of it.
And you might say, “well if he’s so stupid how come he keeps getting away with all of it?”
And the answer is, you. Because you vote for him.
Impossible! They are terrified of Trump! I’m positive that a messenger with a hand-written apology is on their way as I type this.
Donald does not care. In fact, this may be the opening move of the scripted reality show to get him a new wife.
Now for the “P” tapes..
Its an effective reminder of how subservient Trump will be to Putin and the Russians, meant for a global audience. Trump will decline to challenge the Russians with any sort of angry pushback on this (which he does to everybody else, like hating Taylor Swift in Tweet), and it’s crystal clear that Putin’s nutsack rests on Trump’s chin.
Putin’s eating him for lunch as it was prophesize.
Trump is stupid, he does not understand that Putin hates him and the USA.
Yay the world’s making fun of us again!
I missed it a lot, having suffered four years of a somewhat normal presidency
I can go back to being disappointed every time I read the news!
I was told Trump was a strong leader. Why is he being silent and beta towards Russia who’s insulting him? /s
Putin is signaling to Trump. He probably has photographs of Trump doing inappropriate things. By getting the state media to air, the Melania Trump photographs was a way to signal that he can do the same thing with the photos he has, anytime he wants.
Reads like a warning. Like, we have these harmless photos, and know what? We have other ones …
Eric Trump once bragged that most of their money was coming from Russians buying condos. That would be Russian gangsters hiding their money in real estate. Putin has the receipts. Trump is also deep in debt to Russia connected banks in Europe. Trump is now incapable of standing up to Putin in any way.
Old me would’ve said, “Oh man, let’s see his supporters try to defend russia putting nude pics of his wife out in the open,” but it doesn’t matter. They’ve got the platinum in mental gymnastics and apparently no one cares at all anymore so what’s the difference.
Extraordinary humiliation. Showing he was basically caught by a red sparrow.
Except the handler was Paolo Zampolli not Putin directly.
Trumps team tried wiping those pics from the web around 2015/16 but Trump Russia researchers collected them. Still have them.
Day 0 and he’s already being cucked by Putin
So is this why Melania was touting she is “standing proud” of her nude photos a few weeks back?
72 million pathetic Americans elected one of the most pathetic and embarrassing Americans ever to be their president AGAIN. We deserve to be mocked. What a stupid country.
LOL
Putin is sending his lap dog a message
“Keep you place or we start showing the other stuff”
Putin has no love for Trump he just know that Trump will lead the U.S. into chaos and he is all for that
They have a lot of shit on Trump. This is them saying, we are willing to publish it so you better act in our best interests.
Exactly.
I was arguing today with a bootlicker type just for the fun of it. He really believes that Trump is going to end the war between Russian and the Ukraine with a phone call.
Well, that phone call happened and Putin ran Melania’s nudes on state TV.
Putin has no respect whatsoever for Trump.
Trumps followers believe that food prices will go down despite deportations AND tariffs because Trump is so respected by Putin that he could end the way with a phone call.
It’s going to be the same exact thing with Israel and Gaza.
“Oooh, Harris isn’t respected enough on the international stage’ meanwhile Trump is such a joke they show his wife’s nudes on national tv and he’s got nothing to say about it.
I thought trump was a mans man. They sure making him look like a cuck.
That’s Putin letting Trump know he’s still his bitch
“I won’t vote for a cuck!” -Republican morons
Putin: “Yeah, you will…”
Putin openly showing he owns Trump since he gavewith zero response (is that even possible?) after they showed her nudes. For having such a wild temper he’s a fantastic lap dog.
Jerking the leash on your dog in front of the whole world.
Nothing says “American strength” like your president getting utterly cucked from across the ocean before he even gets sworn in.
Putin is telling Trump to play the game his way or he will release pictures of Trump himself that show him with young, possibly underage, girls. This was a shot over his bow so to speak.
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