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First lady is facing increased scrutiny as political experts suggest she is behind US president’s recent volte-faces on Gaza and Putin

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 days ago
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Ahh we have our new Throat Goat

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Here we go, now we'll see any policy the right doesn't like blamed on a puppeteer woman (ick) secretly controling trump

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He listens to women? Since when?

[–] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

The vagina monologues were promising but didn't set well with him.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Depending on where the demented taco is mentally at on a day to day basis, looks like our next Nancy Reagan puppet master of the US is from Yugoslavia. Wild.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Cannot be any worse than him being out of control so I will take it.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which direction were the volte faces in? I have stopped paying attention to this stuff.

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's recently turned against Putin publicly at times distrusting him quite a bit more and giving some support towards Ukraine.

On Gaza he's softened his views in the gazens and publicly talked against Israel. Though, it's more anti Israel than pro gaza

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Trump is still Putin's cockholster. IT just suits them both to have a fake WWE beef before dismembering Ukraine.

As to Gaza, wasn't it Trump who recently told Netanyahu to "finish the job"? He's just trying to deflect the bad publicity that comes from loudly supporting a genocide.

[–] iMastari@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be honest, it seems like Trump is only acting for the cameras, and when he finally meets with Putin he’ll say “Did I do good boss”?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

Certain aid packages continued flowing. It's more than just words. Maybe not a lot more, but more.

I don't think Trump needs Putin anymore.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean the first lady tends to become a major player in politics when the president is incapacitated. It happened to FDR and it happened to Biden. Now it's happening to Trump.

Edit: as pointed out this also happened to Reagan

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Nancy was effectively president for Reagan's second term. People were mad about Biden, but they also hid how far gone Reagan was. FDR, too.