Valuetainment - August 15, 2025


"Putin’s Been Humiliated" - Trump & Putin's Alaska Meeting Could ROCK Ukrainian Negotiations


Episode Stats

Length

18 minutes

Words per Minute

198.82367

Word Count

3,741

Sentence Count

323

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Vladimir Putin hails Trump's energetic and sincere efforts to end Ukraine war. Putin says Trump wants to create long-term conditions for peace both between our countries and in Europe and in the world. But the Russian leader says he has other goals from this meeting that go beyond peace, including nuclear arms control, trade and economic cooperation.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Putin hails Trump energetic and sincere efforts to end Ukraine war. Rob, if you have that video
00:00:06.520 there, and by the way, something very weird just came out from Hillary Clinton about Trump and
00:00:11.840 Ukraine. But before I show you this clip, that clip, watch this right here. This is Putin. Go
00:00:16.860 for it. Tonight on the eve of their high stakes summit in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir
00:00:22.300 Putin trying to lay the groundwork, heaping praise on President Trump.
00:00:26.820 Putin saying the current American administration is making quite energetic and sincere efforts to
00:00:34.620 stop the hostilities, stop the crisis, and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties
00:00:40.100 involved in this conflict. Putin saying Trump wants to create long-term conditions for peace,
00:00:46.980 both between our countries and in Europe and in the world. But the Russian leader saying he has
00:00:52.160 other goals from this meeting that go beyond the war in Ukraine, that he wants to discuss
00:00:56.720 nuclear arms control. The Kremlin saying trade and economic cooperation will also be on the
00:01:02.060 agenda. Trump today not ruling out those conversations, but saying his focus is on ending
00:01:07.680 the war. I think that President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren't president,
00:01:13.580 he would take over all of Ukraine. But I am president, and he's not going to mess around with me.
00:01:17.920 But Ukrainian President Zelensky, who won't be in the room, says Putin is bluffing. And today,
00:01:24.460 Trump admitting he thinks there's a 25 percent chance this summit will fail. But if it doesn't,
00:01:30.700 Trump says he wants to quickly bring Putin and Zelensky together for another meeting,
00:01:35.720 even saying Zelensky could join the summit.
00:01:37.800 Oh, that's where it ended.
00:01:40.760 Okay, sounds good. So when you're seeing this 25 percent chance, Zelensky saying he's bluffing,
00:01:46.200 you know, Putin's coming in, you know, saying, hey, you know, Trump seems very energetic about
00:01:51.060 wanting to make a deal. And then Trump makes a promise. And he told Zelensky and allies that
00:01:56.960 he won't discuss territory divisions with Putin this week, and that he agreed that only Ukraine can
00:02:01.660 negotiate territorial concessions this week. So, Tom, your thoughts on the story here?
00:02:05.680 Well, first of all, this is the right body language from Putin, because if you take a look at the Trump
00:02:11.560 wins on tariffs and other things around the world, clearly Trump's gaining momentum. And Putin knows
00:02:18.120 this. Putin pays attention to this. He says, Vinny, when you take a look at something like that,
00:02:23.940 you can clearly see that Putin is not agreeing to anything. But he's saying, I think it's very
00:02:30.860 sincere, very energetic, what he's doing. And then they go on to talk about territory,
00:02:36.120 where Trump talked to European leaders and said, hey, you know, only Ukraine can be at the, you know,
00:02:42.360 be at the table for the final word on negotiating its territory. And Trump is telling Zelensky,
00:02:50.280 hey, we're not going to discuss territory division with Putin this week. However, then we find out,
00:02:54.960 it comes out the other way. This is Russia United States had discussed a model independently like
00:03:01.080 the West Bank. Now, you have to remember what happened with the West Bank and what happened
00:03:04.940 with Sinai Peninsula. When Egypt came across the canal and the Suez Canal and attacked Israel from
00:03:13.700 the southwest, after Israel pushed them back, they actually pushed them all the way back into the
00:03:19.800 canal and back over. And then they took it and they told the UN, we're not leaving. We don't trust
00:03:24.880 these guys. And so we want this permanent buffer and we're taking their damn land and we're making
00:03:29.100 a permanent buffer between us and Egypt. Deal with it. And that's kind of, and so now the US and
00:03:35.040 Russia are talking about, well, what if there's kind of like this zone? And by the way, there's no
00:03:39.780 weapons and supposedly there's no militarized people in the zone. There are the Egyptian side of the zone
00:03:46.720 and the Israeli side of the zone. And if you really want to know about this, you can go
00:03:51.720 read the book, Getting DS. And that's a great book. And it's got the case study on how they negotiated
00:03:56.640 this, which is very interesting that this exactly what the US and Russia are talking about. Maybe we
00:04:02.000 make a permanent buffer here, like the DMZ in Korea. Now, some people are going to be jumping all over
00:04:06.860 me right here. Now, Russia took their land and now they're just trying to get it back. Well, look,
00:04:10.620 we got to solve this thing somewhere. And, you know, they made this, Ukraine did a huge drone
00:04:16.200 attack last night on the eve of them all trying to get together. So one of the things I think-
00:04:20.700 Do you have that video, by the way, of the drone attack? There was a couple of them. While
00:04:23.180 you're, Tom, you're saying that, Rob, if you can pull it up.
00:04:25.820 So I recap. Point one, it appears that good body language from Putin, you know, whether
00:04:31.400 you agree with him or not agree with him about the attacks and everything. Second, I think
00:04:35.820 Trump's really behind the scenes trying to negotiate something. And the fact that the West
00:04:39.560 Bank or the Sinai or even Korea DMZ comes up, says maybe we create a buffer that ends up
00:04:45.060 working for everybody. He may not like it. And then lastly, you know, we haven't seen
00:04:50.080 Zelensky. It doesn't look like Zelensky is going to show up. It looks like this is truly
00:04:54.180 going to be Trump and Putin.
00:04:57.640 So the question here, is that it, Rob? That's one of the ones that was reported on.
00:05:02.000 And so-
00:05:02.500 No, this is the automated airplane.
00:05:04.220 Is that crazy?
00:05:05.060 Yeah. So the drones they've built, by the way, we were talking about this the other day
00:05:08.540 with Ukraine. Ukraine produces, Ukraine produces, I believe the number was, was it a, I don't
00:05:16.920 know what the number was. It could have been a thousand drones a day. Rob, can you check
00:05:20.920 how many drones Ukraine was producing?
00:05:23.160 And there were like 500 bucks a drone or something like that.
00:05:25.560 For $500, they were blowing up $5 million equipment.
00:05:28.320 That's an ROI right there.
00:05:29.920 Just so you know that, what they were doing. But who in here is, yeah, that's right, right
00:05:35.840 there. You see it? So they do, wow, that's unbelievable.
00:05:39.020 Wow.
00:05:39.560 $200.
00:05:40.000 4 million drones this year, 200,000 drones a month, and 6,700 drones a day is what they're
00:05:46.180 producing. A day is what they're producing. So you simply put a bomb on it, send it to
00:05:50.360 a bunch of different locations. So a smaller country, lesser, you know, not inferior weapons,
00:05:55.680 they're being a bigger pest to the enemy. That's a bigger behemoth with a ton of nuclear weapons
00:06:01.060 that they have there. The question I got for you guys is this. Putin's saying the following,
00:06:05.920 it seems like Trump is energetic and sincere about wanting to do Ukraine deal. Okay. So
00:06:11.820 Zelensky says, I think he's bluffing. Okay. Trump says 75% chance, boom, 25% chance it's a bad
00:06:21.280 meeting. I'm going to do the whole thing myself. Who here needs who the most? And who is just
00:06:27.140 fake actor? Nothing's going to get done. That's the question. Adam.
00:06:31.280 You're asking who needs who the most?
00:06:33.720 Who wants this thing to be done the most? US, Putin, or Zelensky?
00:06:39.660 I think Trump wants this thing to be done. He's the one who said that he'll get this done
00:06:43.620 before he's even taken office.
00:06:45.960 Day one.
00:06:46.240 So look, who doesn't want it to get done?
00:06:49.840 Zelensky.
00:06:50.720 Everyone thinks it's Zelensky. I think it's Putin because Putin has the opportunity to stop
00:06:55.240 this today. He clearly does not want to stop this. It's shocking to me that people are so
00:07:03.500 anti-Zelensky. So let's compartmentalize. Is Zelensky someone that we enjoy, that we like,
00:07:09.860 that we want to hang out with, that we even want to back up? No, no, no, no, no. But who's
00:07:14.660 actually the enemy? It's Putin. So, you know, you had the great interview with Andrew Bustamante
00:07:19.980 yesterday. He was basically saying, it's really a great return on investment to keep our enemies
00:07:27.260 preoccupied. The reason that we're not over there having boots on the ground, whether it's in
00:07:33.340 Ukraine, whether it's in Gaza, whether it's potentially in China, is let them do the dirty
00:07:39.300 work. And it's basically saying, oh, like, I don't want to go to the restaurant. I don't want to have to
00:07:43.360 go pick up the food. DoorDash that thing. Uber Eats that thing. Ukraine is our Uber Eats. We want
00:07:50.480 to deal with Russia. We want to deal with their propaganda. We want to deal with their warfare.
00:07:54.100 Let Ukraine deal with it. Everyone used to be, Bernie Sanders is like, the millionaires,
00:07:59.220 the millionaires. And then it turned into the billionaires, the billionaires. News for you.
00:08:03.860 If it doesn't start with a T, with a trillion, and it starts with an M, million, it's really not that
00:08:10.620 big of a deal when you're giving people money. In my opinion, Putin wants to keep this war going.
00:08:18.220 Zelensky's trying to just stay in power. He doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
00:08:21.060 And Trump wants to make a deal. Final point. He said in a press conference, press briefing
00:08:27.500 with journalists, he said, I'll know within two minutes if we have a deal. Did you hear him say
00:08:32.340 that? And a reporter goes, well, how do you know that? He goes, excuse me. This is what I do. I make
00:08:40.900 deals. This is what I do. I think there's a 1% chance of anything good happening. Trump laid the
00:08:48.520 groundwork of 25% chance it will fail. I think it's a 99% chance there's nothing happens from this.
00:08:54.380 We'll see. Question though. Go ahead. Play the clip. Yeah.
00:08:57.760 Meeting with Vladimir Putin. And at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes,
00:09:02.000 I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made. How do you know? Because this is what I do.
00:09:07.140 Hello. I mean, it's so true. If you want to know what Trump is, this is what I do.
00:09:13.220 So you're saying 99% chance nothing's going to happen. My opinion is different. Vinny, where are you at?
00:09:18.860 Well, Adam, when you say that they're our enemy, we're not at war with Russia. They're not our enemy.
00:09:24.380 They're our adversary. I think China's a way bigger enemy. Are we at war with China?
00:09:30.500 No, not a shooting a gun war. Okay. So there's different types of wars.
00:09:34.220 COVID and buying land and doing all that. I agree with you. There's different types of wars.
00:09:37.820 Oh yeah. A hundred percent. But with Russia, you think we're just peaceful and friends with Russia?
00:09:41.880 Not peaceful, but we've been poking the bear with them since the nineties. We told them-
00:09:46.400 But it works both ways. No, I understand that. But when it comes to this situation,
00:09:50.140 especially with this meeting, I think Trump is an alpha, huge alpha. So is Putin. They're going to
00:09:56.820 be in a room, hopefully, with Zelensky. He's not even a beta, bro. He's not. He can't compare to
00:10:03.300 these two. And then when you have all the war hawks, I'm hoping the Lindsey Graham's and all
00:10:06.480 the defense contracting people, Pat, probably weren't in his ear, which I'm pretty sure they're
00:10:10.040 talking to him. And like, Zelensky, there's no money if you just piece it up and we just stop right
00:10:15.660 now. If you bow down, we're all going to lose money. You're going to lose your position and
00:10:20.300 you'll look weak. Okay. My hopes are that it happens, but the way that Zelensky is, Pat,
00:10:24.460 with the attitude and coming in the White House, that type of attitude comes from people in your
00:10:28.440 ears saying, hey, go in there and be a freaking tough guy. He's not a tough guy. He's an actor.
00:10:32.900 Who, can I ask you a question?
00:10:34.820 To Pat's question, who do you think needs it more?
00:10:37.600 Trump. Adam nailed it. Trump just for, he said he was going to do it. He's a little bit delayed,
00:10:42.340 but I think, uh, I think Zelensky, Zelensky neat. Listen, cause you know what it is? Hundreds
00:10:48.460 of thousands of people are dying. And guess what? With the drones aside, who, who thinks
00:10:53.040 it was lost more soldiers? Ukraine, Ukraine has running up to them and putting them in
00:10:58.420 advance. So to me, this is how I see it. And we can get to the next story is a guy at the
00:11:05.860 level of Putin or Trump. They don't waste seven hours of their day going somewhere that
00:11:12.260 they don't want to do anything. And that's a one way flight on a way back. It's another
00:11:15.860 seven hours for Trump. How long is the flight time for Putin? Rob, where Putin was going
00:11:20.320 through. What do you mean? Russia is right next to Alaska. Sarah Palin can see Russia from
00:11:24.060 her house. It's not that far.
00:11:25.480 What I'm saying to you is neither one of them.
00:11:27.760 Moscow is nine time zones wide from the Pacific.
00:11:31.240 So what I'm saying to you is this, this is not going to be a meeting where guys are trying
00:11:35.260 to, you know, waste their time going to a meeting like this. That's one. They're not going
00:11:39.880 to do it. So there's a reason why they're doing this. There's not a waste of time. So
00:11:44.960 there you go. Eight hours and 20 minutes to Alaska. So you got Putin's got 17 hours of
00:11:51.460 flight time. Trump's got 14 hours of flight time. Neither one of them are doing this for
00:11:56.020 the hell of it because they need more publicity and they want to get cameras. The world knows
00:12:00.420 them. They don't need another million followers or a hundred thousand followers or 50 million
00:12:04.620 views. They don't need that. But to me in this, in this case, I think the way Zelensky
00:12:09.960 and NATO did it. So NATO is telling Zelensky, we have your back. He goes and meets with Starmer.
00:12:15.780 He goes and meets with Macron is speaking on his behalf. Macron comes out and says,
00:12:20.660 uh, uh, Trump agreed. Only Ukraine can negotiate territorial concessions. Macron says, so Macron is
00:12:29.700 now speaking on behalf of Zelensky speak there. So, which means NATO is not for a deal at all.
00:12:37.800 NATO is trying to tell Zelensky, you don't have to give nothing. We have your back. That's what
00:12:44.020 NATO is saying. And Trump in this section where he can throw a complete wrench inside the whole
00:12:49.800 thing and is capable of doing that is really you guys all teamed up against me, NATO. Really? That's
00:12:54.600 what you want to do? No problem. I, the country that gives the most money, I'm agreeing to have
00:12:59.960 Putin, Russia be a part of NATO. Go ahead and play that game. So I think they're, they're,
00:13:04.160 they're, Trump in his, Trump is showing this hand, which is three cards. Trump's got two cards
00:13:10.580 that he's like, nobody knows what those two cards are, including Hexet. No one knows it. And all of
00:13:16.860 a sudden he's going to drop it. It's like that moment when Trump is standing next to Netanyahu
00:13:20.360 and he says, yeah, we're excited about Gaza. We're going to take over. We're going to take
00:13:24.720 over Gaza. We're going to make, and then Netanyahu looks at him like, what? We didn't
00:13:28.640 speak about this. You didn't agree to this year. So I think that's the surprise element
00:13:32.660 of Trump that's coming here soon. What he's going to say, who knows? But in this case,
00:13:37.680 I think Putin needs this deal the most. I do think Trump wants it for different reasons.
00:13:45.920 Legacy. But I think, I think Putin, honestly, if you think about it, Putin's been publicly
00:13:51.780 humiliated. Zelensky has not been humiliated. Zelensky has been turned into a hero. Putin
00:13:57.060 has been publicly humiliated because everybody thought within 30 days, the war is going to
00:14:03.220 be done and Putin's going to get what he wants. And that's not been the case. Yes. So it's
00:14:07.600 a bit of a, it's a bit of a black guy in front of, on that black guy. It's a little bit of
00:14:12.280 a black guy in front of his audience of what happened. And it's to the point right now where
00:14:18.040 Hillary Clinton chimes in. And this is what she said. She admits she would nominate Trump
00:14:23.740 for Nobel Peace Prize if he helps end the war in Ukraine. Hillary Clinton admits she,
00:14:30.920 is this it, Rob? Does she say that? Let's see it. It's a deep fake. If President Trump
00:14:34.540 were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. Wow, that's respect.
00:14:38.900 Okay, so there you go. That's it. That's where it ends right there. There you go. So, I mean,
00:14:42.000 and the reason why Hillary Clinton's saying it the way she did, you know why she's saying
00:14:46.340 it as confident as she did? Because she knows something that there's no way it's going to happen.
00:14:51.240 Or else she would never say that. Right. You think she's involved in the conversations
00:14:55.320 with NATO and Zelensky? You think she's involved with all the Democrat establishment talking
00:14:59.380 to each other on what they're going to be telling Zelensky? You think the insider establishments
00:15:02.940 told her exactly how the conversations went? Of course. I don't think, I think Hillary Clinton
00:15:08.480 just gave away her cards in that statement. And the cards are, over my dead body, this war
00:15:15.240 is going to end. And because I know the war is not going to end because I'm involved in
00:15:19.720 it on the inside with some relationships, guess what? I'm willing to say publicly that
00:15:23.980 I would nominate him to a Nobel Peace Prize because she knows she never will. If she does,
00:15:27.920 it'll be the first time in her life that she shows a sign of nobility, which is great.
00:15:31.300 But I think that was her having too much information that she indirectly told the world that I kind
00:15:37.840 of know a little bit more than you small time people out there that you are doing podcasts
00:15:42.560 and shows and mainstream and all this stuff. You guys are not on the inside. You guys are
00:15:45.460 just, you know, what's the word? You guys are just peasants. You guys are just masses. I know
00:15:49.660 what's going on because I'm on the inside of the conversation. Do you think that she's such a
00:15:53.580 psychopath, self-dealing person that she would rather see the war go on in Russia and Ukraine
00:16:01.840 than see Donald Trump, her middle rival, Hillary Clinton, receive the Nobel Peace Prize? Do you think
00:16:07.100 she's that? Diabolical. Just diabolical. Knowing what we know about her. Are you really asking
00:16:12.580 that question? Like, what kind of a question is that? I mean, you're talking about a person that
00:16:16.380 you're talking about a person that in 2016, do you know what happened to her? She said,
00:16:24.020 happy birthday, future president to herself. That's just an egomaniac, right? No, no. She
00:16:29.420 was going to win. Yeah. But that's different from being diabolical. Oh, I know this woman is on a
00:16:34.680 whole different level. No, never underestimate the power of a, not, you know, he-man. There she is.
00:16:40.020 This is, this is Hillary Clinton. I know we want to move on. You know how highly she thinks of
00:16:44.520 herself? Oh, no doubt. This is a week before the election. She wished herself a happy birthday and
00:16:49.680 then she lost. You think she's ever going to forget the stage? No. No, she's not going to forget the stage.
00:16:53.960 Brutal. I mean, listen, every politician is a narcissist in some capacity. Not like that.
00:16:58.680 Guys, I'm with you. By the way, just side note, what percentage of the stories we hear about Hillary
00:17:04.580 she did this, she did this, do you think are actually true? 10, 20, 50, 100?
00:17:10.200 Let me put it to you this way. If 25% is true, it's bad. If 5% is true, it's bad.
00:17:17.160 It's like when we had Gianni Russo here, it's like, what? You subbed a Madonna, you did this.
00:17:21.140 It's like, if half the stories you say are true, you're the man. So, yeah. She's that big of a
00:17:25.240 psychopath. I don't know, but we'll see. Every once in a while, we get new things that come up for
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