- Putin: [Who is this doddering old fool?] Stooge 1: [Some Crypto dude] Putin: [Jesus, these people. Tell him I said hi or something.] Interpreter: President Putin offers his warmest greetings and thanks for your visit /1
- NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)
- /2 Witkoff: Why how very nice and on behalf of Donald J. Trump, President of all of the United States, I accept Putin: [did he drop Golden Shower’s name?] Interpreter: [Yes. The idiom and tone suggest devotion to a cult leader or perhaps a favorite top] Putin: [Yikes]
- Oh, humans are so silly with their politics! We just want to gather shiny coins and raid the trash!
- witkoff probably did that on trump’s instruction. that’s exactly what trump did when he met with putin – no american aides or interpreters.
- The interpreter was provided by his boss. It makes sense.
