Humiliated Trump’s Anger at Putin Grows as GOPers Start Breaking Ranks
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump is extremely frustrated with Vladimir Putin right now. |
| 0:46.4 | In a series of public remarks, Trump has lashed out at Putin for keeping up his attack on Ukraine, |
| 0:52.1 | which the Russian leader has mysteriously not stopped doing, |
| 0:55.9 | even though Trump says he wants him to. Trump has called Putin crazy, and he tweeted that |
| 1:02.0 | Putin is playing with fire. What strikes us about all this, however, is that Trump only seems |
| 1:07.9 | capable of understanding Putin's continuing warmaking as an affront to him personally, |
| 1:13.2 | which really underscores his unfitness for this moment and makes it very hard to understand |
| 1:19.1 | what's driving administration policy at this point or where it's all going. |
| 1:23.9 | So today we're talking to Kathy Young, a staff writer at the bulwark, who's done a lot of |
| 1:28.0 | analysis of all these dynamics. Hopefully she'll be able to help us understand it. Kathy, thanks for |
| 1:32.8 | coming on. Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure. So Russia just carried out one of its |
| 1:38.1 | worst drone and missile attacks on Ukraine since the invasion started. At least a dozen were killed, |
| 1:45.6 | large numbers were injured. |
| 1:49.8 | Before we get into Trump's madness, can you bring us up to date on what happened with that attack and what's been going on with the U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace? |
| 1:54.4 | Well, the attacks have been growing in intensity for, I think, the past month. |
| 2:01.6 | It's just been a series of relentless attacks, including on Kiev, where for a period of time, |
| 2:08.5 | Russia was not attacking. I think part of it is that Russia has sort of stepped up its |
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