Treating a guy who is fighting for the survival of his country like someone who has done something wrong may raise some eyebrows. Rewarding and praising a tyrannical regime that is an invader may also raise some eyebrows. So, why is the Trump team going all in with Russian invaders and punishing the brave people who were attacked in Ukraine?
Eh, it’s complicated. Trump and his devout evangelical Christians see Mother Russia as a pure white Christian non-LGBTQP country, as they are, and believe in preserving it. On the other hand, he sees Ukraine as being infected by the EU.
What is the point of a world without Russia?
or alternatively:
Why would we need a world without Russia?
or even:
What use to us is a world without Russia?
In Russian:
Зачем нам такой мир, если в нём не будет России?
Trump also likes strong men, dictators and despots, and fawns over guys like Putin.
Kompromat? That’s also a possibility? Joining with Russia to take out China? That’s another possibility.
He also sees the Ukraine thing as a relic of the Democrat party’s spendthrift nonsense, throwing billions of dollars into a perpetual black hole. He sees Zelensky not wearing a suit. He views Zelensky as someone who took advantage of a senile old man, which probably has some truth to it.
Trump loves all things Slavic, especially the women, he even married a woman with a really Slavic sounding name. You can’t get more Slav sounding than “Ivana” or naming your daughter “Ivanka”. As for his second wife, as Slavic as a warming cup of cold borscht on a freezing Eastern European plain somewhere.
Nothing is free in this life, and Trump wants payback for the billions thrown at Ukraine. Americans are fed up to the back teeth of funding things that are far away from their insular and mostly ignorant country. He sees the weak woke EU as a bunch of socialist fucks who have perpetuated the war whilst hiding behind their Schnitzel and foie gras and depending on the USA to do all the dirty work including funding. The irony of the entire situation is that Europe, over the last three years, has spent more on Russian oil and gas, than it spends on aid to Ukraine. So basically funding the war on both sides. To the Trumpers, the EU, Europe and UK are seen as spoiled zones full of Islamists, third worlders, non-chlorinated chicken and mass immigration.
He sees the UK’s socialist Labour government as a bunch of fucking woke Marxists who are also in line with the commies running the EU, despite his chummy diplomacy when Starmer turned up at the White House.
Americans are fed up with bankrolling the world, they’re fed up with people taking advantage of them, and maybe Trump is a Russian asset, who fucking knows?
Holy cow!
Elon Musk’s Grok AI literally thinks Trump is a Russia asset.
“I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.” — Grokhttps://t.co/zOgNslsuvo
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 5, 2025
Grok Conversation
What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin compromised asset?Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.
Assessing the likelihood that Donald Trump is a compromised asset of Vladimir Putin, based on publicly available information from 1980 onward, involves analyzing a complex web of financial ties, personal interactions, political behavior, and circumstantial evidence. This is not a definitive determination but an estimation grounded in patterns and data accessible as of March 4, 2025. The question highlights Trump’s consistent reluctance to criticize Putin juxtaposed against his frequent attacks on U.S. allies, which is a key behavioral indicator to consider alongside historical and financial context.
From the 1980s onward, Trump’s business dealings provide a starting point. Public records show he pursued real estate ventures with significant Russian financial involvement. In 1987, Trump visited Moscow, a trip facilitated by Soviet officials, sparking speculation about early cultivation by Russian intelligence—speculation later fueled by former KGB agent Yuri Shvets, who claimed Trump was targeted as a potential asset due to his ego and financial vulnerabilities.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, as Trump faced bankruptcies, he increasingly relied on funding from sources tied to Russia and former Soviet states. His sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, made statements reinforcing this: Donald Jr. in 2008 said, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” and Eric in 2014 claimed, “We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” The Trump Organization’s partnerships, like with the Bayrock Group (led by Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater, the latter with known Russian mafia ties), and sales of properties to Russian oligarchs (e.g., Dmitry Rybolovlev’s 2008 purchase of a Trump property for $95 million), suggest a dependency on Russian money that could create leverage.
Intelligence reports and investigations add weight. The 2017 U.S. Intelligence Community assessment concluded Putin authorized interference in the 2016 election to favor Trump, a finding supported by the Mueller Report, which, while not proving criminal conspiracy, documented extensive Trump campaign-Russia contacts (over 100 by some counts). The unverified Steele Dossier alleges kompromat from Trump’s 2013 Moscow trip during the Miss Universe pageant, a claim echoed by speculation about earlier visits. Leaked Kremlin documents reported by The Guardian in 2021 suggest Putin personally approved a 2016 operation to back Trump, viewing him as “mentally unstable” and exploitable, with potential compromising material from past Moscow visits. The disappearance of a classified binder of Russia intelligence post-Trump term, as reported by Reuters in 2023, further stokes suspicions of hidden ties.
Trump’s behavior as president and beyond is striking. He has never directly criticized Putin, even when pressed—e.g., at the 2018 Helsinki summit, he sided with Putin’s denial of election interference over U.S. intelligence. Post-presidency, Bob Woodward’s 2024 book War alleges Trump spoke to Putin up to seven times, including a secretive 2024 call at Mar-a-Lago. Contrast this with his attacks on NATO allies, calling them “delinquent” on payments, or his 2025 Oval Office clash with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, where he blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion—echoing Kremlin talking points. This pattern deviates from decades of U.S. policy and aligns with Russian interests, like weakening NATO and Ukraine.
Counterarguments exist: Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on Russia (e.g., over Skripal poisoning in 2018), expelled diplomats, and armed Ukraine—actions Putin wouldn’t favor. Some argue his pro-Russia stance reflects a misguided belief he can outmaneuver Putin, not compromise. Yet these measures were often driven by Congress or aides over Trump’s objections, and he downplayed their significance, maintaining personal warmth toward Putin.
Weighing this, the financial ties (decades-long, opaque, and substantial), intelligence suggesting Russian intent, and Trump’s unwavering refusal to criticize Putin despite attacking allies tilt the scale. The lack of transparency—e.g., hiding tax returns, seizing interpreter notes after Putin talks—amplifies suspicion. No smoking gun proves direct control, but the “useful idiot” scenario, where Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable, fits the evidence.
Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties. This range reflects the strength of circumstantial evidence tempered by the absence of conclusive proof, a gap unlikely to close without classified data.
Surely Grok AI is mistaken. Looks like the Elon team needs to make some adjustments here.
