Inside the Trump-Putin meeting

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

There will likely only be six people in the room when President Trump meets President Putin on Friday at the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany.

According to an official familiar with the meeting's planning, it will be Trump, Putin, the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, and translators.

The meeting will be held at 3:45pm local time (9:45am in Washington). It's scheduled to last half an hour. The meeting comes as Congress is pressuring Trump to apply new sanctions on Russia and to confront Putin over his election hacking. The two leaders had previously entertained striking a deal that could've encompassed fighting ISIS together in Syria and negotiating a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. Such politics appear out of reach at the moment, though Trump will likely ask Putin for help in dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/coming-attractions-trump-putin-meeting-2454467032.html

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Much easier to blurt something out if there aren't any witnesses.

[Rollo]

1. I hope the carpet is thick so Trump doesn't hurt his knees...

[thbobby]

9. No worries

I am sure clustertrump has well calloused knees.

[Doug the Dem]

10. Indeed

If Trump demands Scope after the meeting, we'll know how "well" it went.

[TBA]

2. Half an hour?

That seems short. It is 2 world leaders...

[sharp_stick]

3. Trump doesn't like long

I'm sure Putin will be able to give his orders in half an hour.

[brooklynite]

4. Trump is a busy man...

...those TVs don't watch themselves.

[Achilleaze]

6. This is Twerper Diplomacy

an area where the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, get to display his twerpy anti-democracy ideas.

[sharp_stick]

5. The fact that H.R. McMaster isn't part of

a meeting like this is amazing. He should insist or resign, he's quickly becoming just another cog in the Trump machine.

[Control-Z]

11. But Tillerson is.

Nothing suspicious there.

[sharp_stick]

12. No, absolutely not

I'm sure they aren't going to be quietly doling out sections of the Arctic ocean for oil exploration.

[MBS]

16. " " " "

Very nervous and anxious about this meeting, especially given the news about the attendees.
Trump is way, way, way out of his league here, so ignorant, so unstable, and so easily manipulated.
I've disagreed intensely with many presidents in my time but never before have I had this creeping feeling that the very presence of a president in the White House so directly endangers our national security. I have zero confidence that this crew is looking out for the interests of our democracy.

[underpants]

7. Snowflake is bringing a gift

[Hortensis]

8. This is bad. Literally all issues are way over Rump's head,

totally lost before discussion even gets serious. A number of people have observed that Rump has a tendency to come out of meetings repeating THE LAST WORDS said in the meeting, regardless of what came before.

You can be sure Putin and his evil but very redoubtable team have planned just how to use Rump's pathological inability to concentrate, much less understand, against us.

Tillerson has also impressed absolutely no one so far--except with his ignorance of the job. And just what WILL our Secretary of Exxon goals be in all this?

If Rump promises to cancel the sanctions and give away the Balkins in there, we'll just have to refuse to sign off on the deal.

[lark]

13. Only co-conspirators allowed so information can be freely transferred

but kept hidden from everyone in America but his co-conspirators.

[MGKrebs]

14. No Secret Service?

What if Putin tries to stab him in the neck with a needle?

[keithbvadu2]

15. No worries there. Trump is Putin's most valuable asset in America.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. The title of the OP is in error. It was meant to be: The Putin Inside Trump Meeting!