Sometimes I wake up in the morning and think, “Is this really happening?” Then I turn on the news and see our dumbass president speaking. That’s what happened this morning. After spending a lovely Sunday in a horizontal position on my sofa, watching “Just Like That” on HBO Max, I woke up this morning and turned on the news. The first thing I saw was a video of Donald Trump telling reporters the U.S. was sending more weapons to Ukraine. He also admitted that Russia’s shirtless horse-riding dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been gaslighting him.
“Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening... I don’t like it,” Trump moaned.
Yeah, that’s what dictators do. They talk out of both sides of their mouth so they can get what they want. Trump wants us to believe he just realized Putin has no intention of ending the war? Give me a break.
Trump spent the entirety of his first term kissing Putin’s ass and complimenting him every chance he got. When his daddy invaded Ukraine in 2022, moderate Republicans supported sending military aid to help the Ukrainian military. It didn’t take long for MAGA to begin its assault on U.S. foreign policy and convince its base that helping Putin’s enemy was a waste of money. Meanwhile, Trump claimed he would end the war in 24 hours if elected.
When Putin’s puppet took office in 2025, the war did not end in 24 hours. GASP.
In February, Trump and Vice President Eyeliner embarrassed themselves when they attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an Oval Office meeting. That same month, the regime withheld a shipment of weapons briefly. It appeared Trump’s plan to end the war was to give Putin whatever he wanted while sticking it to Zelenskyy, whom he has hated since his first impeachment.
Make no mistake, Trump doesn’t give a single flying fuck about Ukraine or protecting the people Putin is killing. Remember, this is a man who is driven by ego, greed, and self-preservation.
There’s one thing about Trump that is not often considered when we talk about whether he’s capable of successfully negotiating an end to the war or if he actually wants to: the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump is obsessed with getting the Nobel Peace Prize. His ego can’t stand that former President Obama has one and he doesn’t. He probably thinks that if he can end the Russian war on Ukraine and bring “peace” to the Middle East, then he will get a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s giving ’90s pageant queen.
The problem with that is that Trump’s completely inept. Putin has played him like a fiddle, promising to engage in peace talks while attacking civilians. On Friday, July 11, Russia attacked a maternity hospital in Kharkiv.
Meanwhile, members of Trump’s regime have also sabotaged his plan for “peace.” Last week, reporters revealed that Secretary of Defense Hangover Hegseth paused a weapons shipment to Ukraine without obtaining permission from the White House to do so. The Associated Press reported that Trump was pissed about it and reversed the decision.
“President Donald Trump’s decision to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine came after he privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing a pause in some deliveries last week — a move that he felt wasn’t properly coordinated with the White House, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
This is the kind of nonsense that happens when the U.S. government is run by reality stars and B-team Fox News anchors.
Putin knows that Trump will never really do anything to him. Sure, he’s sending weapons to Ukraine, but that’s just a continuation of what Biden did for two years. Meanwhile, Putin will keep murdering innocent people because he doesn’t fear the felon in the White House. He’s like Shereé Whitfield in season 2 of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta demanding, “Who’s gon’ check me, boo?”
Trump is the party planner, just awkwardly laughing and looking off into space. Here’s a video for those of you who don’t watch brain-rotting reality TV with the same passion I do.
I predict the decision to send Ukraine weapons will last until Putin whispers sweet promises about allowing the Trump family to build a hotel in Kyiv if he wins the war. Or someone in MAGA tells Trump to stop helping Zelenskyy. We all know he’s incapable of doing the right thing for too long.
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Great column! I agree 100%!
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