Trump Trolls Biden Ahead Of Summit with Putin

By Staff, Agencies

Former US president Donald Trump heckled his successor Joe Biden ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and reminisced about their 2018 meeting in Helsinki which he said succeeded despite efforts by US spies and media.

“Good luck to Biden in dealing with President Putin – don't fall asleep during the meeting, and please give him my warmest regards!” Trump said in a statement on Thursday.

Biden is scheduled to meet with Putin in Geneva next week. Moscow has described the meeting as “very, very important” but cautioned that no one should have high hopes about its outcome. There is “no reason to expect any progress in reaching mutual understandings” or achieving a reset of relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told reporters.

Trump called the July 2018 summit in Helsinki, Finland “a great and very productive meeting” in which the US “won much, including the respect of President Putin and Russia” despite the “belated Fake News portrayal” of what happened.

Corporate US media had lost their minds over the summit, because Trump had supposedly sided with Putin over the US intelligence community, which insisted that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election that saw Trump defeat Hillary Clinton – whom most outlets endorsed and viewed as the favorite.