It's no secret that Trump is easy to manipulate with flattery. Surprised every leader in the world isn't doing this. You can hate the guy's guts, but give him a smile and a compliment and you can bend him to your will
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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This only shows weakness to Trump. It tells him your country is weak fearful and seeks his protection.
Trump is going to do whatever it is he wants to do and this just confirms Finland won’t be a major obstacle to his plan and/or Finland will just go along with it.
Finlands President is a fool.
I just couldn't disagree more. Finland doesn't have to actually do anything different. Telling Trump how great he is in private can get him off your back entirely, because he's a narcissist. All he cares about is whether or not someone likes him. There's absolutely nothing about this meeting that "just confirms Finland won’t be a major obstacle to his plan and/or Finland will just go along with it."
You are making the same mistake every player has made in regards to Trump.
You are under estimating him and you believe he is transactional in relationships. You give him X, he gives you Y. Trump is NOT transactional. Trump sees you giving him X as weakness and will try to take Y and Z from you in the future. He will never give you Y unless he is forced to.
Trump does not give a shit if you like him. Trump only cares that you will follow him and do what he says either willingly or by coercion.
Europe and Canadian leaders came to, or called Trump at Mar-a-lago in the weeks after the election and kissed his ass.
It accomplished nothing. Trump is still moving forward with tariffs and his agenda to break up NATO and make America a regional power with hegemony over North America.
If you want to figure out what Trump is actually up to ask yourself why does he want Greenland? We already have military bases there. Denmark will let us build more or exploit the resources on that island.
The only reason you would seek to annex Greenland is if you are working toward a future where Denmark would see you as an enemy and would not allow the US access to Greenland.
Think about what would have to happen to make that a reality…
I say this as an American, Europe needs to start arming itself ASAP. Because no one here has managed to stop this Orange Fucker. I don’t have any faith we can stop him from whatever shitty plan he has.
at his estate in Florida,
Sorry, fucking wut??
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He hates being at the White House, with all the rules and procedures that have to be followed there. He'd much prefer to engage in open corruption without all that red tape.
Actually, it's because it's the weekend and he's spent 9 of the last 10 of them (since resoiling the White House) at his shitty golf course. Wonder why DOGE isn't saying shit about $26 million being spent on these little excursions?
He's plenty happy breaking laws and being corrupt in DC.
Waaay more bathrooms at Mar a Lago to store things in!
Maybe there is no sauna in the white house.
Trump is probably too old to survive a proper sauna. I hope he goes into one.
I thought Finland hated Russia?
The current president is both a little sneaky and a bit naive, who thinks reasoning and a little oiling up can sway the big swindler
Sneaky yes, but naive Alexander is absolutely not.
Thinking he'll convert Trump is naive. But it's true he could be kissing the ring for actually wanting to appease him. Anyway a slimy guy
There is zero chance he's kissing the ring. And I agree thinking he would convert Trump would be naive, but I don't think that was it either.
Generally speaking, the last person the orange fascist speaks with gets his attention for X amount of time. He was either doing that about something very specific, or possibly it was more of an intelligence operation, finding out what the fascist's next step around a specific issue is.
Anyway that's based on knowing Alexander fairly well. But, it could also be the other European leaders said to him "hey man, we did our trip to that asshole, now it's your turn!" (the last guess is from my wife, who knows him a bit better/longer than me).
Interesting. Care to spill the beans from your perspective? No need to self doxx or anything. Do people in connection with him fall for the smarm?
DM me I'll send you details.
