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Trump Makes Last-Minute Decision... Look Who He Is Bringing To His Meeting With Putin!


Trump To Bring 'Putin Whisperer' Golf Buddy to High Stakes Meeting

When President Donald Trump meets with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska on Friday, many expect a trusted 
lieutenant and seasoned foreign policy hand to be at his side.

The White House has released the list of the full delegation traveling to Alaska, where a summit between US President Donald Trump 
and Kremlin head Vladimir Putin is expected today. Of note, Trump will have his "right-hand man" with him-Secretary of State Marco 
Rubio.

Here are the others: Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent; Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick; 
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff; Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt; CIA Director John Ratcliffe; White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Witkoff, a longtime friend of Trump since the 1980s and his occasional golf partner, has been dubbed the "Putin whisperer" after 
meeting with the Russian leader four times since January, the Daily Mail reported.

"The scheduled meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin head Vladimir Putin will take place on Friday at 11:00 AM 
local time (10:00 PM Kyiv time) in Anchorage. According to two senior US administration officials, Trump is expected to roll out 
the red carpet upon Putin's arrival at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Friday and plans to greet the Russian leader upon 
arrival," the report noted.

"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that a comprehensive solution to end the war in Ukraine would take longer than the 
meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska. Russian dictator's press secretary Dmitry Peskov claimed that Trump and Putin do not 
plan to sign any documents following the talks in Alaska," the outlet added.

Friday's summit - which will not include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky - marks the most significant U.S.-Russia diplomatic 
engagement since the war began in 2022, the Daily Mail noted.

On Thursday, Putin met with Kremlin officials and praised Trump, saying he believed the president was making "quite energetic and 
sincere efforts" to achieve peace in the region.

The Russian leader suggested that lasting peace could be possible if the U.S. agreed to include strategic offensive weapons 
treaties in the upcoming negotiations.

Meanwhile, several outlets reported Friday morning that Air Force One had departed Joint Base Andrews carrying President Trump to 
Alaska.

Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Russia has endured a wave of Western sanctions, yet heavy military spending and securing new oil 
customers have kept its economy afloat.

Sanctions have targeted the country's lucrative energy exports in an effort to strain the Kremlin's finances. The European Union, 
for instance, imposed a ban on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil in late 2022, CNN noted.

Moscow has adapted by redirecting large volumes of oil to India and China. However, Trump's threats to impose so-called secondary 
sanctions - additional tariffs on buyers of Russian oil - could disrupt those trading arrangements.

Trump has warned that starting at the end of August, he will impose a 25% tariff on Indian exports to the U.S. as punishment for 
New Delhi's trade with Moscow - in addition to the 25% levy he introduced last week. India has defended its Russian oil purchases 
as necessary to safeguard energy security for its 1.4 billion citizens.

If secondary sanctions ultimately push buyers of Russian energy to seek alternative suppliers, it could deliver a major blow to the 
Kremlin, CNN added.

Expectations are high for the meeting. "A potential joint news conference from Trump and Putin - which may or may not be on the 
cards after their one-on-one meeting - looks set to be an 'extraordinary spectacle,'" CNN reported, quoting its chief global 
affairs correspondent Matthew Chance from Alaska.

Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded the Trump administration's "energetic" efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine. He hinted 
that Moscow and Washington could reach an agreement on nuclear arms limitation during their summit in Alaska on Friday afternoon.

In his first public comments since President Donald Trump announced the Alaska summit, Putin hosted a meeting of senior Russian 
officials at the Kremlin on Thursday to advise them on the status of negotiations with the US on Ukraine.


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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."