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Russia Tries To Downplay Trump’s Claim Putin Has Gone ‘Absolutely Crazy’
Russia downplays Donald Trump’s latest criticism of Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war, describing the response as a sign of “emotional overload”.
The US president accused his Russian counterpart of going “absolutely CRAZY,” blaming Putin for “needlessly killing a lot of people” following yet another massive assault on Ukraine over the weekend.
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He added: “I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”
Trump has tried to force both Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an end to the war even though the conflict was triggered by Putin’s land grab in 2022.
The US president has often expressed sympathy towards Russia’s aggression and suggested Ukraine will have to concede land in the name of peace.
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However, four months after Trump formally took office, Putin is yet to agree to even a 30-day ceasefire.
Many international peace efforts have faltered and temporary truces have been quickly broken by new Russian attacks.
Even so, after Trump’s sudden rant against Putin on his social media platform Truth Social, the Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov clearly tried to strike a more conciliatory tone in his response.
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He said: “Of course, the start of the negotiation process, for which the American side made a lot of effort, is a very important achievement and we are truly grateful to the Americans and personally to President Trump for their help in organising and launching this negotiation process.
“It’s a very important achievement. Of course, at the same time this is a very important moment which is connected to an emotional overload of everyone involved and emotional reactions.
“We carefully monitor all the reactions. However, President Putin takes those decisions which are necessary for the security of our country.
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“We all witnessed how the Kyiv regime threatened foreign leaders before they came to Moscow to commemorate Victory Day. Everyone heard these threats by the Kyiv regime.
“And many leaders who were here witnessed attempts by the Kyiv regime to strike Russian territory with drones, large cities, even the capital, on the eve of such an important day. These attempts continue. We are forced to take measures and President Putin does what is necessary to provide security for Russia.”
The response completely overlooked the US president’s renewed threat of imposing fresh sanctions on Russia.
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Trump told reporters on Sunday night he was “absolutely” considering new
He continued: “I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin. I’ve known him a long time. Always gotten along with him.
“But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”
Meanwhile, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch appears to have been praised by the Russian Embassy in London, after she said on Sunday that Ukraine was fighting “a proxy war” against Russia on western Europe’s behalf.
Her remarks were then quoted approvingly by the Embassy, which said Badenoch had “finally called a spade a spade”.
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Kamala Harris Takes Subtle Swipe At Elon Musk In Rare Appearance
Former US Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday took an apparent swipe at billionaire Elon Musk over his stance on empathy, while conceding that she is deeply concerned about the current state of the world, in one of the few public appearances she’s made since leaving office.
Speaking at the Australian Real Estate Conference, Harris alluded to recent remarks by Musk, who has now significantly scaled back his role in the Trump administration — a stark contrast to his constant presence by President Donald Trump’s side in the early days of his second term.
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“There was someone that is very popular these days, at least in the press, who suggested that it is a sign of the weakness of Western civilisations to have empathy,” Harris said, according to The Guardian, without naming Musk.
“Imagine. No, it’s a sign of strength to have some level of curiosity and concern and care about the well-being of others,” she continued.
During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience in March, Musk suggested that while caring for others is important, it’s a double-edged sword.
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilisation is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilisation, which is the empathy response.”
Musk has limited his role in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting initiative he repeatedly touted, amid polls showing that the public was souring on him and signs of trouble for his electric car company Tesla, seeming to stem in part from his involvement in the Trump administration. But what appears to have been a “turning point” for Musk was the defeat of the conservative candidate he backed in the race for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, according to The New York Times. Musk privately acknowledges his involvement was counterproductive, the Times added.
The tech billionaire, a major donor in Trump’s 2024 campaign, has also said he will scale back his political donations going forward.
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“In terms of political spending, I’m gonna do a lot less in the future,” he told an economic forum in Qatar last week.
“I think I’ve done enough,” he added.
Harris, who is reportedly mulling a run for California governor following her defeat in the 2024 presidential race, also expressed profound concern about the current state of the world amid Trump’s pursuit of his America First agenda.
“I do worry that it is important that we remember history,” Harris told the audience, according to The Guardian, without referencing Trump. “It’s important that we remember the 1930s. It’s important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation.”
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Trump Marks Memorial Day With All-Caps Rant At ‘Scum’ And ‘Monsters’
US President Donald Trump marked Memorial Day by posting an all-caps rant on social media that attacked Democrats as “scum” and condemned federal judges as “monsters.”
Trump’s grievance-filled message on Truth Social on Monday, posted on a day of sombre reflection for most Americans, saw the president also smear immigrants as “criminals” and “mentally insane.”
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The president reportedly deleted an earlier version of the post in favour of a simple “happy Memorial Day!” before publishing the attack again with the typographical errors corrected.
In the post, Trump wished a “happy Memorial Day to all,” including the “scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border that only an incompetent president would approve.”
He added that US judges were “on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world, in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again — all protected by these USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country.”
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The president added that he hoped the Supreme Court “and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land” would save the country from “the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.”
Many of Trump’s policies have faced opposition from the lower courts, notably over his plans to crack down on immigration.
One federal judge has found that members of his administration may be liable for contempt after ignoring his order to turn around planes deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
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In a spree of Memorial Day posts, Trump also praised his own tariffs policy, claimed that the “golden age” of America is coming, and let rip at Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Trump also said he wants to pull $3 billion in taxpayer cash from Harvard University in the ongoing fight with the Ivy League school.
Labour’s First Renationalised Train Service Gets Off To A Hilarious Start
The first train to be brought back into public ownership under Labour was (metaphorically) derailed today, turning the major moment into a bit of damp squib.
South Western Railway (SWR) officially came under public ownership at around 2am on Sunday morning as part of the government’s promise to create “better services”.
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The first service of the day – normally be the 2.27am train from Guildford to Waterloo – was cancelled.
So that meant the pressure was on the 5.36am service from Woking to London Waterloo to mark the historic occasion.
But any jubilation from the occasion quickly evaporated when the journey had to rely on a rail replacement bus service between two stops, Surbiton and Clapham Junction.
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It turns out that bank holiday engineering works had overrun meaning the train was no longer able to go down the intended track.
But Keir Starmer seemed to overlook the embarrassment this morning, claiming on social media that his new public ownership scheme was “just the start”.
“After decades of Tory failure, our Plan for Change will put passengers first, as promised. That will mean better services, with simpler ticketing, on more comfortable trains,” the prime minister wrote on X.
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The Department for Transport also promoted the “historic” occasion, claiming it “kicks off a reset of the railways to improve performance and boost economic growth as part of the Plan for Change.”
Despite this government spin, many people were quick to complain – including Liberal Democrat MP Monica Harding.
“This is hardly the fresh start my constituents in Esher and Walton were promised,” she wrote on X. “Let’s hope SWR under government control gets better than this!”
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Others, of course, wasted no time in finding the hilarity of the situation.
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