Discussion: Trump Dismisses Reports On Second G20 Meeting With Putin As 'Fake News'

His use of the phrase ā€œtop 20 leadersā€ made me laugh. It sounds like there was a playoff. I wonder where heā€™d rank himself & Vlad.

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Fake news? Possibly, except that there was a room full of witnesses, which kind of tilts it toward ā€œreal newsā€ā€¦

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Have you filled out your bracket yet?

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It will be interesting to find out what they talked about. I assume that every intelligence service worth its salt has multilingual lip-readers in attendance at events like this. Itā€™s just a question of how long it takes for someone to leak the transcript.

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Considering he responded the way he did, Iā€™m guessing the two of them were finalizing their 2018 election plans.

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So, these tweets are more evidence of what we kind of knew already - the term ā€œfake newsā€ has no particular meaning other than it is something that sounds good to Trump and his followers and is only meant to question something he doesnā€™t want us to know about or doesnā€™t want to admit. It applies to witnessed events, photographic evidence, anonymously sourced stories, official documents, etc. Iā€™ve come to the conclusion that it is a catch-phrase he uses because his vocabulary is too limited to express whatever it is a more intelligent or less mentally deranged person would say in the same situation.

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One can only suppose they were discussing ā€œadoptionā€.

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Seriously, someone has to think of the children!

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Has golden shower boy and teenage rapist Trump ever told the truth to the American people.

When a President lies and lies and lies and is the center of propaganda and has a press team that lies and fabricates unbelievable excuses, then the country wonā€™t be able to have any confidence in the administration. That is complete dereliction of duty and abuse of power.

IMPEACH Trump and Pence!

Our President is a fool. It is possible that as a fish out of water (remember how isolated he was in various photos from informal breaks between talks, when others would be standing and visiting), went over to Putin because he wanted his (Trumpā€™s) ego stroked, and Putin was the only leader giving him less than a cold shoulder or very superficial (and unfawning) conversation.

Even considered in the most innocent light, Trump is still a fool. He doesnā€™t understand Putin, or Russiaā€™s goals let alone long standing practices, nor the idea of ā€˜useful idiotsā€™ - and that he is vulnerable to being played. And being played he is. Not having an intentional witness (such as say, Putinā€™s translator), anything could be portrayed by Putin as having been said or committed to (2 buildings the Russians want back, perhaps?)

Considered in the worst light, and this was, I believe, after the story broke about Kushner and Flynn approaching Kislyak about setting up a secure (away from the US govt) channel to communicate directly with the Kremlin, this looks horrible, can be seen as destabilizing by allies concerned with growing Russian aggression, and makes him look weak to his country, to his allies, and to Russia. Again I say, the president is a fool. But we already knew that.

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Iā€™m amazed a seventh-grade word like ā€œsinisterā€ remains in our senile presidentā€™s sagging vocabulary. He doesnā€™t even seem to understand what ā€œfakeā€ means to the rest of the adult world, instead interpreting it as ā€œthing I donā€™t likeā€.

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Wait till he tries to be hip and cool while using ā€œnothingburger.ā€

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Hasnā€™t come up with a new catch phrase in months. Low energy. Sad.

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Or he may have been putting in the order for his next Russian bride. The current one seems to be acting up.

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The Presidency of the United States has become a joke in the eyes of the world.

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Anyone else smell a BIG skunk?

Trumpā€™s animated response proves heā€™s hiding something BIG!

ā€œmade to look sinister!ā€ in Trumpā€™lese means something like ā€œboy, howdy, did we talk about important stuff I shouldnā€™t have.ā€

Maybe he gave Vlad the codes?

One more thing, everyone is talking about the dossier that got passed across the table at the Don Jr. Clown Car Meeting, but no one asked about the thumb drive?

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Flatulence, pure flatulence, from Donnie. He sure is full of hot gas.

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Trump cues us to the worst lies by calling the news about them fakeā€¦ heā€™ confessing every time he says it.

Like I said downthread, this in particular stinks, because it was Putin in a private setting, and Trump was clearly the groveller in that matchup.

Shamefulā€¦

Embarrassingā€¦

Trump and his cast of characters makes the United States look like one big red whtie and blue clown car to the whole world.

We could use a shadow President about nowā€¦

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Careful, or heā€™ll tweet-out some of that noble gasā€¦

look for the tweet!

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