Current Events > Trump praises Putin, Kim, and Xi Jinping

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A dictator wannabe praising actual dictators. Sounds about right.

overblowing quotes and painting a picture of a person based on that is one of the biggest problems with politics today, whatever happened to political nuance?
trump clearly says whatever Putins doing is a grave mistake and is going to cost him bad, him thinking putins smart is besides that.
tbh any political commentator who doesnt wear their heart on their sleeve would consider Putin smart based on the last 20 years.
he was also the first us president to openly start challenging China on its one way street trade arrangements, so very weird to see him get criticised over complimenting xi ping out of context.

finally let me pass my litmus test, Im not a trump supporter and I do see all of the problems in the way he operates, but this interview isnt indicative of any of that.

Wtf we love Russia now

While he does describe Putin's "mistake", why the need to praise (which he did) him so much? AND the other two authoratarian leaders? And spend time with authoratarian leaders in Argentina etc while NOT spending time or praising democratic leaders to anywhere the same degree?

RE Xi, Trump had tweeted/expressed concern about China losing jobs

@Ruvan22 most presidents, former presidents are very measured with their words when talking about leaders of other countries, He praises them the same way he praised macron or any other democratic leader after meeting. Geopolitics is a very different beast, while Biden blurting out his wish for a Russian regime change may echo our sentiment, the words coming out of his mouth is dangerous - it could potentially help rally Russians to get behind their president as a defensive reaction amongst many other things.

Again, trump has done a lot of highly questionable things, the way he held on to his seat after losing the election was especially despicable, but offering praise about world leaders isnt really an issue.
if anything, I wish the diplomacy that trump displays in international politics would spill over to the other areas, that wouldve done him a world of good.

I'm beginning to think this guy isn't a stable genius!

@kazuya_mishima
A) I think you missed my point - he ONLY praises them (afaik), he *hasn't* praised non totalitarian rulers. Past presidents (in office and afterwards) have done this - why is it appropriate to only these types of rulers?
B) I'm not sure what you intended by bringing up Biden - are you saying that blurting things out is bad? Like when Trump blurted out he believed Putin and didn't see a reason why he would lie?
C) How exactly are you defining "the diplomacy that trump displays in international politics"? Because most experts seem to have given him pretty poor ratings in that regard

i brought up Biden to say, leaders should be very careful about criticising heads of other countries, it can be very easily used to unify the people of the country in question, and thats exactly what the Russian state media has been doing using Bidens comments.

Democrats: Insane people who stole an election and want to destroy the country.
Media: Enemy of the people.
Dictators who are a threat to the world: Good guys, very smart.

lol The Russian state media has literally being using Trump to promote their actions and unify their people by claiming he supports them

But you praise trump and use Biden criticising them invading other nations as an argument against him?

that'd insane

Literally the only reason is to rile up his base
Which for some weirdass reason take pleasure in making contrarianism a core part of their personality.

I mean, who else is someone who didn't have to earn anything he has and failed upwards gonna connect with? It's logical he likes other people who got handed some power and became addicted to it at the expense of millions.