I'm getting tired of this guessing game.

Will somebody please ask AI when and how Trump is going to self-destruct.

'Cause right now he's scaring the scat out of everybody.

LAMP @ #24

"Why do Republicans seem to be so afraid of voters?"

It's a Follow The Leader thing. Trump and FOX conditioned their lazy minds well.

It's apparent that the really stupid ones don't have a clue about the disease that's been fermenting in Trump's mind since his childhood. Combine that with age related paranoid onset and we'll all have a raving lunatic on our hands.

"Become emperor of the world."

Don't be silly, DONNER.

Wouldn't that require 20 paces at dawn with Putin?

They can't both be Emperor of the World.

Trump, by nature, is a defeatist. Of course, his numbers are under water.

He can't help himself. It's the story of his life.

"I think that he [Putin] wants to make a deal for me."

LOL - Wishful thinking on Trump's part.

I'm inclined to believe Mr. Putin has more lofty things on his mind and doesn't give a flying fart about Trump's obsession with winning a Nobel Peace Prize just so he can rub it in the nose of Barack Obama.

IOW, Trump's Inferior Complex is on full display.

"Trump again blames Ukraine"

That old jibberjabber again. Nobody believed him the first thousand times.

Trump's age-addled noggin must be in its wash, rinse, repeat stage.

CLOWN @ #17

"Abbott is Trump's *itch."

No doubt looking for a premo spot as one of Trump's BFFs after 2028.

Pardon me.

Has everyone already forgotten about the (former) Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy's August 2020 rampage to dismantle U.S. mail sorting machines to slow down the delivery of mail-in ballots in a failed effort to prevent Joe Biden from willing the election?

Just sayin'. Trump has been blaming mail-in ballots for ages. Simply because they happen to be primarily from Democrats.

Old evidence that Trump thinks he can't win without cheating.

REDIAL

Wouldn't it be a hoot if the Nobel Peace Prize went to Zelenskyy?

LOL ~ Trump would get diarrhea of the mouth and try to buy Norway.

Putin also thinks that anybody who doesn't agree with him should "disappear" into a Siberian gulag.

Trump is taking lessons.

REDIAL

True. Trump's been slinging that "peacemaker" poo about himself for weeks.

The Nobel committee would have to be pretty naive not to recognize a phony sales pitch when they see it.

As President he couldn't even make the cover on Time magazine. That's another one of his pet peeves considering that Obama made the cover at least a couple dozen times.

And Hillary Clinton at least that much.

CLOWN

"Maybe Putin can help him."

Putin IS helping him, evidenced by that phony, so called summit meeting in Alaska that gave Trump a lot of creds as a peacekeeper for the Nobel Peace Prize committee to consider.

LAMP

I'm just thinking that bigger things are at stake. My hypothesis is that Putin doesn't want to destroy Trump. They're going to need each other later on. Which I outlined in my #13.

I think they're both lurking until Trump is in a political position to join Russia in carrying out their ultimate goal.

Right now, you've got to admit that Trump is doing everything he can to destroy democracy which Putin has already accomplished in Russia. Trump has some catching up to do but he's working on it.

Trump and Putin are both power hungry 'control freaks.' I'm thinking that this unholy BFF relationship is a prelude to their ultimate goal . . . to split up the hemispheres and jointly control the world's economy and thus, control the world. Maybe with China as a silent partner.

Trump is just trying to drag everything out until after the midterms when he's counting on having that Unitary Executive title in his pocket and he doesn't have to worry about 2028.

LAMP

Not "buy." It's more like one of Trump's other lack of good character traits . . . BLACKMAIL!

Knowing Trump, he'll just make his own Peace Prize and give it to himself ~~ and (like everything Trump declares about himself) it will be the biggest and the most beautiful peace prize the world has ever seen.

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.

Trump usus Roget's Thesaurus.

LEGALLY

"It's like nobody likes him."

Have you forgotten? Tech multi-billionaire, Peter Thiel, is standing by in the wings to buy mental midget, J.D Vance, the next Presidency.

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.

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

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

Ya think? Stress kills.

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.

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.