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turbinetree

(26,366 posts)
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 01:55 PM Jul 14

'Don't ask me a question like that!' Trump snaps as reporter asks about Putin

By Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Published July 14, 2025 12:30 PM ET

President Donald Trump lost his patience with a reporter Monday as he met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office Monday to announce his plan to send Patriot missiles to help Ukraine defend itself from continued Russian onslaught.

The reporter asked Trump, "If Putin escalates further, how far are you willing to go in response?"

"Don't ask me a question like that," he snapped back.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2673162062/

So your flip flopping again.............now you want the war over................and your............. what's it called when the press ask you a straight forward question and they push a button..............thin skinned .............you really are a piss ant.............just from the picture with you sitting there like an idiot with all that gold shit around from home depot makes you truly a tin pot dictator...................they are just as fake as you are...........

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Prairie Gates

(5,706 posts)
1. Again, exhibit X for the failure of American journalism: why doesn't everyone get up and walk out?
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 01:59 PM
Jul 14

They do not have to assent to this abuse, and doing so is complicity.

Ocelot II

(126,085 posts)
2. He responds that way because he has no idea what to do when his "deadline" expires.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 02:02 PM
Jul 14

It will be just another serving from the TACO truck. Putin is too far down his own rabbit hole to allow being bossed around by the likes of Trump, whom nobody takes seriously any more. Of course aid to Ukraine will make Trump's former BFF unhappy, but Putin isn't going to give up his war so quickly.

turbinetree

(26,366 posts)
4. He is a idiot.........he really is.............and the press should have pushed him until his veins in his neck exploded
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 02:06 PM
Jul 14

Torchlight

(5,141 posts)
3. He's acting overly-emotional again
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jul 14

I hope his brain isn't cramping up on him... I had a brain freeze from ice cream once and it's a real bummer; I can't imagine feeling that 24/7. But, if it helps him feel better about the day he chickens out to Putin again, more power to him. "He's smart enough, he's good enough, and doggonit, people like him..."

newdeal2

(3,419 posts)
7. "Epstein and Putin are my best friends!
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 02:38 PM
Jul 14

You’re treating them horrible and they’re taking it out on me. Unfair!”

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