Discussion: Trump: 'I'd Get Along Very Well With Vladimir Putin' (VIDEO)

system1 · July 30, 2015, 1:51pm

Discussion for article #238931

dr_coyote · July 30, 2015, 2:00pm

This is all. So. Beautiful.

humpback · July 30, 2015, 2:03pm

What will the base make of this?

mjv135 · July 30, 2015, 2:03pm

What is it with the right’s love affair with Putin, the manly man who takes what he wants and doesn’t wear mom jeans? This is their ideal leader? A dictator?

ajaykalra · July 30, 2015, 2:04pm

Trump has already looked in Putin’s eyes and has found him trustworthy. Sarah is still busy looking at Putin’s head in Alaskan sky.

frankly_my_dear · July 30, 2015, 2:06pm

I’m sure the Donald would get along great with Putin. But he’d probably have to do some work on his pecs and abs before the feeling would be mutual.

mantan · July 30, 2015, 2:06pm

Bingo! Thank you, Jesus!

mattinpa · July 30, 2015, 2:08pm

“I just think so.” Man, I know he’s telling the truth on that one. My guess is about 96 percent of what he thinks is stuff he just thinks. The interviews where they’ve actually pressed him for policy ideas are making me so hot for the first debate I can barely stand it.

JohnB · July 30, 2015, 2:08pm

“I think I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so.”

You are mistaken, sir. I see no evidence of thinking in this statement.

mantan · July 30, 2015, 2:09pm

Just imagine the jewelry Putin could steal…

dr_coyote · July 30, 2015, 2:09pm

The base is making this. They all have a faintly-homoerotic love affair with their fantasy of Putin as a “strong leader” as opposed to the arugula-eating Kenyan in the White House who makes them feel stupid.

caltg · July 30, 2015, 2:10pm

In some ways Trump and Putin are cut from the same cloth: They are both pathological liars and self-aggrandizing narcissists.

mantan · July 30, 2015, 2:11pm

A joint Olymipics - World Cup?

irasdad · July 30, 2015, 2:11pm

“[Hillary Clinton] was the worst secretary of state in the history of our country. The world blew apart during her reign.”

So true.

I remember when the Twin Towers fell during her tenure.

Then, of course, she invaded Iraq.

And who could forget when she triggered the Great Recession?

mantan · July 30, 2015, 2:14pm

And that terrific Godzilla remake…
But…dear God it just struck me…the 1st naked from the waist up summit…the mind boggles, Katie.

JohnB · July 30, 2015, 2:16pm

You are correct. Re the Fiscal Times piece:

“The wall’s going to be built. We’re going to have a great border."

If he’s talking about a hotel or casino, I kind of sort of know what that means. But “a great border”?? What does that even mean?

humpback · July 30, 2015, 2:20pm

I guess you’re right. I just thought it made no sense to say you get along with the leader of America’s enemy. But silly me, looking for logic in the GOP race.

george_spiggott · July 30, 2015, 2:20pm

The Donald’s hats are all very classsy!

sniffit · July 30, 2015, 2:21pm

Yeah! Derpy Donald and Pooty both barechested together while fishing from horseback!!! Such manly men!

In other news, brain bleach prices are rising.

mantan · July 30, 2015, 2:23pm

You just know they’d rape Poland…