CORKY

"especially when Coup Rumors are circulating in Moscow."

That's how Khrushchev got the ax after President Kennedy forced the Russian ships to turn tail during the Cuban missile standoff.

The Kremlin waited a couple years until Khrushchev was out of town. When they called him back home, he wasn't President of Russia any more.

He spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

As usual, Trump came home empty handed ~ with only a deal to "set the table" (his words) for another meeting. Which is euphemism for ABJECT FAILURE.

I take it that Mr. Putin wasn't impressed with Trump's attempt to barter FUTURE military support for Russia's floundering invasion of Ukraine in exchange for the help Trump needs NOW to get his Nobel Peace prize.

The meeting is on FRIDAY

Trump is just preparing the public for failure by announcing in advance that his only intent is to "set the table" for a future meeting. My guess is that's he already floated the barter idea and knows Putin's response is negative.

CORIOLANUS

That's Zalensky's Achilles heel. That and being dependent on the traitorous mindset of Donald Trump and especially lily-livered accomplices in Congress who would sell their own country down the drain for fear of retaliation. There's not a GOP man-sack in the bunch. Right now, they're all just a bunch of frightened eunuchs, willing to go-along to git-along, the future of democracy be damned.

We might as well include the GOP members of the U.S. Supreme Court.

CORIOLANUS

Without his makeup Trump looks like death warned over. Maybe there's still a chance.

Ya think? Stress kills.

CORIOLANUS

Trump has already set up an escape hatch from this meeting

He announced that if he doesn't hear what he wants from Putin within the first two minutes, he will walk out ~~ and hold his own press conference single-o.

Somebody has probably put a bug in Trump's ear that this meeting with Putin could be an embarrassing trap and he should be ready to bolt for the door.

CORIOLANUS

There's an air of Doom hanging over this meeting. Putin is arriving, not only with his own superior intellect and acute knowledge of the situation but with his battle worn staff of experts.

Trump, OTOH, is arriving woefully and intellectually inferior with his staff of newly minted, fresh from the vine, entourage of staffers who, if Trump runs true to form, are just along for the ride.

IOW, Trump does all the talking. Woe is us . . . or better said, Woe is the U.S.A.

Trump usus Roget's Thesaurus.

We don't know what went on behind that closed door meeting, but it does appear that this whole summit thing (1 on 1 with Trump, red carpet, ride in the "Beast," etc.) was merely to boost Putin/Russia out of their isolationist reputation.

Trump did get one thing, though. At least the media isn't talking about Epstein while they're performing an autopsy in this fake summer meeting to confirm that Trump is the consummate dirty-trickster.