"Vladimir, I Need Instructions!"

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke after Trump paused his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

He must of had to check in with his boss.

Need further proof that Trump is a rapist? Rapists always blame their victims for being raped. Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded.

The Krasnov Files

Someone asked Grok what would have happened in Alaska if Trump was a Russian asset.

This is the scenario. Seems accurate.

The Russians Know

Trump has turned the United States into a Russian client states.

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning

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— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM

He has surrendered his administration to Russia. Everything he has done and is doing is guided by the idea of weakening America and making Russia and, by default, China, the powers of the 21st Century.

I don't know what hold Putin has over him, but it has to be something really, really bad.

And if you voted for him, you're complicit.

Beating These Down, Here.

I have a lot for today, so let's get this posted and running!

Maybe Putin Has the Epstein Files

...with video, to boot.

That would explain a lot about Trump donning his kneepads in Alaska.

European Leaders to Meet With Russia’s Representative in Washington

European leaders including Britain’s Keir Starmer will join Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at a White House meeting on Monday with Donald Trump, in a coordinated effort to push back on a US-endorsed “peace plan” that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory.

The UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, and Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

The European leaders have better memories of what happens when you cede land to an aggressive dictator who is bent on territorial expansion. Trump's so-called plan is nothing more than a surrender plan. Because Trump, of course, being both an acolyte of Hitler and a lacky of Putin, is on the side of the aggressive dictator.

Also, very much this:

Your Sunday Morning OSH Noise

You'll see a Champion Lancer, probably the only twin with a single-engine ceiling below sea level.

What Does Putin Have on Trump?

One meeting and he's spouting Russian talking points.

Donald Trump will back a plan to cede unoccupied Ukrainian territory to Russia to secure an end to the war between the two countries, it was reported on Saturday, after details of his post-summit call with European leaders leaked out.

Trump told European leaders that he believed a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agreed to give up the Donbas region, which Russian invaders have not been able to seize in over three years of fighting, the New York Times reported, citing to two senior European officials.

Nothing about a ceasefire, about sanctions. He is the best negotiator since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to the Nazis. Probably worse, because Hitler didn't own Chamberlain as Putin owns Trump.

Or it took one face-to-face meeting for Putin to remind Trump that Putin has the mortgage on his fat ass.

Baked Alaska Amateur Hour

Idiot Trump staffies made copies of summit schedules and protocol mattrrs in the printer at a hotel in Anchorage.

This is what happens when the only quality necessary to get hired in that shop is loyalty to the Orange-Faced Hair Furor.

Caturday

Chip didn't like this little house, so it went down the road.

Trump Got Played, Bigly

And even Fox News can't hide it.

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) August 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM

Color me both "unsurprised" and "disappointed". Maybe it was unrealistic as fuck to hope that Trump migt, for once, actually pull off a good result.

But here we are. All he produced was hype, spin and bullshit.

Same Shit, Different Day.

Demented or Drunk. Choose One.

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) August 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM

Heiling These Down, Here

Trump is a shitheel and he has no qualms about showing that.

Because It's Friday

Dollywood has live steam!

Remember, Trump Pardoned Guys Who Beat Cops With Poles, Clubs, Crushed Them in Doors and Sprayed Them With Bear Spray

But he and Bondi are going after a guy who threw a sandwich at a Feebie. And, instead of letting him turn himself in (as was offered), they sent twenty goons to do an early-morning performative arrest.

Compare this case to how they've treated the J6 criminals who assaulted cops: All pardoned and quite a few have been hired by Bondi and Trump.

It's all a massive distraction to get something on the news other than the continuing fact that
Trump is in the Epstein Files.

Trumpie's Loyalty List

They've put together a list of companies and organizations that suck his dick.

If he wasn't so powerful, I might care about what happened to him as a child that left him so damaged and so in need of constant flattery and adulation. He'd sell his kids if somebody praises him enough. That's not normal.

Discount Goebbels and His Dollar-Store Brownshirts

Gov. Newsom held a press conference to talk about counter-gerrymanding and Discount Goebbels sent 100 goons from DHS to try and be intimidating. Among the things that the goons did is walk around where an exhibit on interning Japanese-Americans during WW2 was going on. They did that without a single sense of irony.

What he fails to grasp is, unlike the original Brownshirts, nobody's being intimidated.

Can We Start Talking About Trump's Dementia

Trump says that he not left office in 2021, the LA Olympics would've been during "what would be my third term"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Third term? I know the Trumpanzees think he's joking, but it's pretty clear that he isn't.

Crushing These Down, Here

A Bit of a Break

Nina the cow:

Melania Does Her Part

First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not.

Yep, she's doing her part to keep the names of both Trump and Epstein in the headlines.

Heckovajob, Melania.

Make Kristi Norm’s Face Melt Off

Get ICEBlock.

The more people who download it, the madder she will get. And she's already livid, both her and Bribeable Barbie.

Yepper

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM

Also, the point that Trump gins up crisis after crisis because he is incapable of actually doing the hard work of governing.
It's also a distraction.

If You Don't Like the Numbers, Just Don't Report Them; Trump Fucks the Economy Ed.

President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics is suggesting that the agency suspend its monthly jobs report, an economic staple that is relied upon by the Federal Reserve and U.S. businesses to gauge the health of the economy.

In an interview on Fox News Digital on Monday ahead of his nomination, E.J. Antoni criticized the monthly employment report as flawed and suggested it be replaced with "more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data."

A three-month cycle should give Antoni time to cook the data to suit His Demented Orange Master. Which is more grist to the Epstein Distraction Machine.

Ignoring These Down, Here