There are some ugly truths that need to be mentioned that are normally not discussed about retail politics. The media knows and understands them,but don't care because they exist to stir up people in order to turn a profit. Problem number 1 is Trump is not a politician. He is a private citizen and a international businessman. As such,he has lived his entire life playing the political "game" under different rules. Some rules are identical,such as describing someone you can't stand but need to temporarily ally with in order to "sell" your product,be it ideological/political or commercial as "My good friend!",while the reality is you would love to set them on fire and then watch them run around the room.
If you are a businessman,you can tell whatever lie you need to tell to "seal the deal" and there are no negative consequences. It's a game everyone plays and everyone understands.
If you are a politician,you play the same game but the rules are different as are the consequences.
As a businessman doing business in Russia,Trump can sit at a table and praise Putin until the cows come home,and nobody cares. It's a major factor in "The art of the deal". Everybody knows everybody is lying,and nobody really cares because this sort of thing is the "grease" needed to ease the movement of the goals of both sides.
The same is true in politics,but in politics you have a leftist press that LIVES to catch a non-leftist businessman,politician,or public figure of some sort in a lie so they can start screaming about it to make an issue so they can keep selling advertising.
ANYBODY that expected Putin and Trump to sit together at the same table at the same time to be interviewed by the public press and then look into the cameras and say something like "I think he is despicable. A liar,a cheat,and a international gangster who brutalizes his own people." isn't smart enough to qualify as an idiot. Press conferences are strictly "kissy-face time" and everybody knows it. ESPECIALLY the press,who choose to ignore this when it comes to a non-leftist politician.
Does ANYONE really expect Trump to sit with Putin at the same table at a press conference held in Russia to discuss meetings they just held and expect to hear Trump say anything BUT positive things about Putin??????
If he did that,EVERYTHING he did accomplish while there would be tossed aside,and we would be in a worse position than we were before the meetings.
Trump is now a international politician learning to play politics at the topmost level,and the press,the left,and the RINO's are having orgasms trying to destroy him and any advances he did make,KNOWING THE WHOLE TIME that their complaints and whining are all bullshit. If it were Bathhouse Barry instead of Trump,the press and the political left would be naming their children after him in orgies of praise.
The only thing different is if it were Bathhouse Barry,the alleged Right in the alleged Republican Party would less viscous because they see Trump as a bigger threat to their power than they do ANY Dim.
Granted,there are a LOT of sheeple that are registered and active alleged Republicans that just "follow the party label with no thinking needed or required" that don't know any better,but there are a HELL of a lot of alleged "conservatives" that DO understand what is happening and are willing to lie about it in order to destroy Trump so their favorite poser candidate can defeat Trump in the primaries of 2020.
And then promptly lose to Bubbette! Clinton or Bernie. That doesn't matter to them,though. What matters is THEIR guy was the name at the top of the losing ticket,so they still have influence to peddle. Influence that Trump will never give them.
