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tblue37

(67,400 posts)
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:34 AM Friday

Especially read the final, 2-line, paragraph. It's disgusting, infuriating!

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

“I’m sure Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care,” said Jim Townsend, who has worked at both the Pentagon and NATO and is now an analyst with the Center for a New American Security. “Trump likes Orban and probably thinks he’s doing him a solid. Also, Putin is an Orban friend. Most of the world would not consider Budapest neutral ground for such a meeting but I guess Trump and Putin do.”

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In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”


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Especially read the final, 2-line, paragraph. It's disgusting, infuriating! (Original Post) tblue37 Friday OP
Link please? genxlib Friday #1
Here ya go... OmegaX Friday #2
Thanks. tblue37 Friday #3
I wish there was a journalist who can find KKKaroline's weak spot IzzaNuDay Friday #4
Her weight JustAnotherGen Friday #6
Her plastic surgery? Farmer-Rick Friday #9
I wouldn't attack her less than perfect appearance! IzzaNuDay Friday #16
See that's not a person JustAnotherGen Friday #17
KKKaroLYIN Traildogbob Friday #7
I think it's great malaise Friday #5
Grade school maturity issues aside genxlib Friday #8
Ummmmm, I think you seriously overestimate the "news" groups if you niyad Friday #15
Only the best and brightest IronLionZion Friday #10
Mean girls. Both of them. underpants Friday #11
I don't want to hear about the high road ever again. dalton99a Friday #12
What in the fucking hell was that even supposed to mean? Sounds niyad Friday #13
Cheung helped toss aside the female staffer at Arlington National Cemetery... Kid Berwyn Friday #14
I remember that! electric_blue68 Friday #18

genxlib

(6,019 posts)
1. Link please?
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:43 AM
Friday

I swear I am having a harder time believing everything isn’t from the onion these days.

IzzaNuDay

(1,168 posts)
4. I wish there was a journalist who can find KKKaroline's weak spot
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 06:47 AM
Friday

to hone in on Kkkaroline and make her have a nuclear meltdown. She is pretending to be a tough person but I think it’s a facade.

Farmer-Rick

(12,171 posts)
9. Her plastic surgery?
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 08:51 AM
Friday

The lips Pedo Trump likes to talk about have been plumped and shaped by a half decent facial surgeon.

malaise

(290,392 posts)
5. I think it's great
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 06:55 AM
Friday

The entire planet sees that pro white supremacy, pro oligarchs, pro impunity for rapists, other criminals and pro authoritarian governments are his chosen friends.

That he is allowed to violate international law in Venezuela and elsewhere in the name of democracy is hysterically funny.

genxlib

(6,019 posts)
8. Grade school maturity issues aside
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 08:34 AM
Friday

I don't see how this is a good thing for Putin.

Sure it may feel like a home field advantage.

But surely it does not help him when every single bit of news coverage will use the connection to remind people that he had agreed never to invade Ukraine. And it just makes it harder for Trump to gaslight people about who's fault this is.

Seems like a tactical blunder to me even if you overlook the childish playground taunts.

niyad

(128,018 posts)
15. Ummmmm, I think you seriously overestimate the "news" groups if you
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 10:23 AM
Friday

think most of them will mention the Budapest Memorandum. A few, perhaps, like the Guardian. I doubt a good many so-called journalists have ever even heard of it.

niyad

(128,018 posts)
13. What in the fucking hell was that even supposed to mean? Sounds
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 10:18 AM
Friday

like some sort of sandbox taunt.

Kid Berwyn

(22,163 posts)
14. Cheung helped toss aside the female staffer at Arlington National Cemetery...
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 10:23 AM
Friday

…who opposed Trump when he wanted a photo op among the Fallen.

Cheung lied to the press, stating she had “mental problems.”

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