The Russians love trump, pssssst this thread should suck in a lot of libtarts, 3 2 1 lol...
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Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure
The Washington Post
David Filipov 1 hr ago
MOSCOW — Call it Trumpomania. Or Trumpophrenia. Or any of a number of other Trumpisms that have popped up in Russia as this country counts down the moments to President-elect Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House.
Russia has gone crazy for Trump, and it’s not just because President Vladimir Putin and his government have been portraying the presidency of Barack Obama as one long, disastrous exercise in Russophobia, a message that state-run television has been hammering home for months.
Something about the advent of Trump has stirred the Russian soul. It’s almost as though the 45th president of Russia were about to take office on Friday.
Businesses have renamed their products after the world leader formerly known as The Donald. Talk show hosts have dedicated hours to the expression of hope that Trump will lift U.S.-Russian relations from their all-time post-Cold-War low (and in some cases to nasty, unabashedly racist farewells to President Obama). And the Russian Internet is surging with efforts to portray and explain the local Trumpapalooza.
“Trumpomania has taken hold of the country: the media, politicians and political analysts, astrologists, and housewives, none of them can calm down and mind their business,” Gennady Gudkov, a reserve colonel in Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, said in a post on his Facebook page. “In RUSSIAN news the main actor is His Majesty Trump.”
Gudkov, who has spent recent years criticizing Putin’s hold on power, posited that the reason for Trump’s popularity is “how interesting honest and competitive elections and their unpredictability are.”
But Viktoria Chekryzhova, director for development of the Tula Food Products Co., had a simpler explanation for her company’s decision to produce a limited number of boxes of sugar cubes featuring Trump’s likeness.
“With this product, we want to show that we hope that our relations with the United States will improve with the new president. We’re saying we hope our relations will become sweeter,” she said by phone from Tula, a city a 100 miles south of Moscow.
Other Russian companies have joined in. The newspapernews Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that it had discovered “several hundred” companies that include some sort of play on words on “Trump” (which in Russian is transcribed “Tramp”; Russian “Trump” would sound like “Troomp).
A weapons factory in ZlatoustZlatousk minted a commemorative coin with the inscription “In Trump We Trust,” according to the TASS news agency.
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Of course, the jubilation comes against the tumultuous backdrop of accusations of Russian cyberattacks first lodged by the Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community (and recently acknowledged by Trump), as well as uncorroborated reports — which Trump has vehemently denied — that the president-elect has been compromised by Russian intelligence. Putin this week called the allegations an effort by Obama to sabotage his successor’s legitimacy.
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Now, Kiselyov said, this “technology of lies” was being used against Trump. He cited the unverified dossier on the Kremlin’s alleged blackmail of Trump, which is thought to have been composed by a former M16 agent.
“This is an English plot against the elected president of the U.S.,” Kiselyov said. “Now that is interference in American politics!”
Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure
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Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure
The Washington Post
David Filipov 1 hr ago
MOSCOW — Call it Trumpomania. Or Trumpophrenia. Or any of a number of other Trumpisms that have popped up in Russia as this country counts down the moments to President-elect Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House.
Russia has gone crazy for Trump, and it’s not just because President Vladimir Putin and his government have been portraying the presidency of Barack Obama as one long, disastrous exercise in Russophobia, a message that state-run television has been hammering home for months.
Something about the advent of Trump has stirred the Russian soul. It’s almost as though the 45th president of Russia were about to take office on Friday.
Businesses have renamed their products after the world leader formerly known as The Donald. Talk show hosts have dedicated hours to the expression of hope that Trump will lift U.S.-Russian relations from their all-time post-Cold-War low (and in some cases to nasty, unabashedly racist farewells to President Obama). And the Russian Internet is surging with efforts to portray and explain the local Trumpapalooza.
“Trumpomania has taken hold of the country: the media, politicians and political analysts, astrologists, and housewives, none of them can calm down and mind their business,” Gennady Gudkov, a reserve colonel in Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, said in a post on his Facebook page. “In RUSSIAN news the main actor is His Majesty Trump.”
Gudkov, who has spent recent years criticizing Putin’s hold on power, posited that the reason for Trump’s popularity is “how interesting honest and competitive elections and their unpredictability are.”
But Viktoria Chekryzhova, director for development of the Tula Food Products Co., had a simpler explanation for her company’s decision to produce a limited number of boxes of sugar cubes featuring Trump’s likeness.
“With this product, we want to show that we hope that our relations with the United States will improve with the new president. We’re saying we hope our relations will become sweeter,” she said by phone from Tula, a city a 100 miles south of Moscow.
Other Russian companies have joined in. The newspapernews Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that it had discovered “several hundred” companies that include some sort of play on words on “Trump” (which in Russian is transcribed “Tramp”; Russian “Trump” would sound like “Troomp).
A weapons factory in ZlatoustZlatousk minted a commemorative coin with the inscription “In Trump We Trust,” according to the TASS news agency.
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Of course, the jubilation comes against the tumultuous backdrop of accusations of Russian cyberattacks first lodged by the Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community (and recently acknowledged by Trump), as well as uncorroborated reports — which Trump has vehemently denied — that the president-elect has been compromised by Russian intelligence. Putin this week called the allegations an effort by Obama to sabotage his successor’s legitimacy.
...
Now, Kiselyov said, this “technology of lies” was being used against Trump. He cited the unverified dossier on the Kremlin’s alleged blackmail of Trump, which is thought to have been composed by a former M16 agent.
“This is an English plot against the elected president of the U.S.,” Kiselyov said. “Now that is interference in American politics!”
Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure