Dowd: Trump, Having a Bawl in Europe

[gulliver]

WASHINGTON — I had dinner with Vladimir Putin once. He made me lose my appetite.

The then-fledgling president of Russia was polite and smiling at first with me and the other journalists present at the 21 Club.

But then Katie Couric asked about his bloodless behavior in the wake of the Kursk submarine disaster in the summer of 2000, when the boat sank and all 118 on board were killed. She pressed him on why he didn’t come back from vacation when all those Russian sailors were suffering and dying in the submarine at the bottom of the sea.

His face completely changed, almost as though he had ripped off a “Mission Impossible” mask. Suddenly, he stared coldly at Katie, every inch the minacious K.G.B. agent. He looked like Richard Widmark playing a psychotic thug in a ’50s film noir.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/trump-having-a-bawl-in-europe.html

[democratisphere]

1. A psychopath never changes it's stripes.

[montana_hazeleyes]

3. And they all have the "masks" to hide their true selves.

[comradebillyboy]

2. I'm sure Mo Dowd prefers Trump to Hillary so I don't know why

she's complaining.