Trump Is Meeting With Putin Monday, But His Mind Is On Other Topics

US President Donald Trump plays a round of golf on the Trump Turnberry resort in South Ayrshire, where he and first lady Melania Trump are spending the weekend. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — President Donald Trump is tweeting about golf, blaming his predecessor for election hacking and hate-watching CNN, two days before a high-stakes summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Trump is spending the weekend at his seaside Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.

Aides had said he’d be busy preparing for Monday’s summit in Helsinki, but Trump spent the first part of Saturday tweeting.

Trump blamed former President Barack Obama for failing to stop a dozen Russian military intelligence officers from hacking into emails belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.

He also continued to criticize CNN. Trump mocked network president Jeff Zucker as “Little Jeff Z” following a spat with a CNN correspondent at a news conference Friday in Britain.

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  1. Nothing to see here. Just Trump being Trump.

    He does seem to be stewing in his own juices.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Aides had said he’d be busy preparing for Monday’s summit in Helsinki, but Trump spent the first part of Saturday tweeting.

    Bullshit. Only “preparing” he has to do is to grab a stenographer notebook and a pen.

  3. The only preparation Donnie will need for his meeting with Putin is practicing bending over and grabbing his own ankles.

  4. I don’t think he’s that flexible.

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