{"id":9016,"date":"2024-03-08T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9016"},"modified":"2024-03-08T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:54:21","slug":"the-simmering-trumputin-bromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9016","title":{"rendered":"The Simmering Trumputin Bromance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator, petulant man child and future convict Donald Trump has made no secret of how much he admires Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. We&#8217;ve certainly created many photo-toons mocking their weird bromance over the past eight years (good grief! has it been that long?), like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this one (opens in a new tab)\">this one<\/a> from 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Recently former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was talking about Trump's obsession with Putin and how 'creepy' it was (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-putin-malcolm-turnbull-interview-b2503357.html\" target=\"_blank\">Recently former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was talking about Trump&#8217;s obsession with Putin and how &#8216;creepy&#8217; it was<\/a>. He also pointed out how other world leaders noted it and how disturbing it was. This is after <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trump said at one of his Nuremburg rallies that he'd bully NATO allies to pay up or he'd let his pal Vlad invade their country, thus completely ignoring the whole purpose of the alliance (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/14\/trump-nato-allies-00141590\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said at one of his Nuremburg rallies that he&#8217;d bully NATO allies to pay up or he&#8217;d let his pal Vlad invade their country, thus completely ignoring the whole purpose of the alliance<\/a>. That&#8217;s right, folks. Trump is on board with one of the world&#8217;s most ruthless dictators and he wants to turn America into the dysfunctional oligarchy that is Russia. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"He's also met with Hungarian autocrat Victor Orban at Mar-a-largo (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-orban-hungary-conservatives-autocrats-biden-97d6998f747d3543f2f1df069b0f9165\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s also met with Hungarian autocrat Victor Orban at Mar-a-largo<\/a>. The writing is on the wall: if Trump obtains power again, America will be an authoritarian dictatorship and we can kiss our basic democratic freedoms goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re sure the following photo-toon is Trump&#8217;s fantasy outing with his man crush, Vlad. If only we could make this possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinhorseback.jpg\" alt=\"Twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator, petulant man child and future convict Donald Trump was recently seen gallivanting around in his gold sneakers with his man crush Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on the vast Russian steppes.\" class=\"wp-image-9015\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinhorseback.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinhorseback-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator, petulant man child and future convict Donald Trump was recently seen gallivanting around in his gold sneakers with his man crush Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on the vast Russian steppes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator, petulant man child and future convict Donald Trump has made no secret of how much he admires Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. We&#8217;ve certainly created many photo-toons mocking their weird bromance over the past eight years (good grief! has it been that long?), like this one from 2016. Recently former Australian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Simmering Trumputin Bromance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,2487,60,2320,8,68,85,3,2307,198],"tags":[1757,2056,1575,2178,1387,22,20,1899,27,2495,1576,507,914,915,9,2498,1674,663,2143,2144,199,1769,66,2497,98,596,1033,296,1257,2250,19,871,47,48,2332,694,872,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}