Putin has just exposed Trump’s weakness for the world to see

Putin has just exposed Trump’s weakness for the world to see



by theipaper

20 comments

  1. Donald Trump has access to the kind of information-gathering operation of which most of us could only dream.

    He has the option of a morning daily briefing on the world’s most important issues pulled together for him personally by the best-funded intelligence agencies on the planet. If he has a particular question, the resources of the most powerful surveillance state in history are at his beck and call. There is almost no secret on the planet that could be kept from him.

    Unfortunately – or perhaps luckily for his opponents – President Trump seems largely uninterested in any of that, as he seems more than willing to get his news and information from anyone in his orbit who flatters him enough and butters his team up the right way.

    Nowhere was this more apparent than when this week he shared with reporters that he was “very angry” about a supposed drone attack by Ukraine on Vladimir Putin’s residence – condemning the alleged incident with his usual articulacy, deeming it “not good”.

    Traditionally, [an American president might not take a claim](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-optimism-peace-ukraine-dangerously-wrong-4137530?ico=in-line_link) by Russia’s president – at a time when Russia is at war with Ukraine, ostensibly an American ally – at face value. He might check it first, not just with Ukraine but with one of the many American agencies able to confirm whether such an attack happened, the circumstances around it if it did, and so on.

    Instead, Trump simply believed Vladimir Putin. Who needs the CIA or the National Security Agency when Putin can just tell you what’s going on, after all?

    For those of us still concerned with outdated ideas such as whether it actually happened or not, so far there seems to be no evidence confirming that it did. Ukraine has denied it, Russian media attempts to interview locals have so far turned up no one who saw and heard anything as 91 drones were supposedly shot down, and [Russia has a long track record of lying](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/how-putin-respond-trump-ukraine-deal-95-done-4137756?ico=in-line_link).

    Russia, meanwhile, routinely launches drones and missiles at Ukrainian civilian infrastructure – including power plants in the freezing winter – and residences, but since that’s just reported on the boring mainstream media, that doesn’t cross the US President’s radar. Trump likes to stay in his comfort zone: he trusts information that he sees from fans on social media, or that he hears in person from people who flatter him.

    Whatever the cause of his astonishing gullibility, it has certainly been noticed by other world leaders, and it makes Trump – and in turn the world’s biggest superpower – extremely easy to manipulate.

    If you want Trump to buy into your narrative, you have to flatter him, give him gifts, and tell him a story that suits what he already believes. Don’t bother with details, don’t stick to the facts, and definitely don’t challenge his priors – tell him that your problem fits in with his, and he’ll come on side.

  2. You can give a pig all the information .
    Dousnt mean he understands it .

  3. Trump? You mean the entire USA government and congress? Nobody over there seems to notice what’s wrong with Trump, and still blindly stand behind him and his actions, and if they dont, they make sure to write a strongly worded twtiter post. Its a circus of a state those USA

  4. What do you do when your President is a traitorous idiot? Stay tuned for season 2 in 2026.

  5. “Exposed”? More like “added another dot to a very long list”.

  6. I must have read this headline in someway or another 10 times this year already and every time people think this means or changes anything at all it doesn’t. So why should this change anything?

  7. It’s been on display since day 1. The Alaska trip was the biggest video and even everyone from Karline yo Rubio came out there looking white as ghosts. Them less than a week later Trump did Bos almost 2 week disappearing act. What these Project 2025 people especially Thiel don’t get. They have all this money and somehow they don’t get they are still small fish in the ocean.

  8. It’s what you would expect from a senile old man. They get their information from other senile old men and that’s it, they cannot be wrong.

  9. But Comrade Trumpski is a loyal comrade. What more you can ask for? 

  10. Tankies are not allowed to cry about the CIA at this point.

  12. “Exposed” would mean that it was hidden before, though. 

  13. Have you seen these CIA guys, with their reports, and probabilities? Putin tells it like it is. /s

  17. We’ve all known about it for many years now. The Manchurian Candidate is right there in our midst.

  18. Too bad most of his supporters are Notsee’s who won’t look.

  20. So trump doesn’t read lol he’s daily briefing lol prefers to watch Fox News lol USA is doomed

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