Helsinki – Riding high after hosting a successful World Cup, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought a special gift to his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump: a soccer ball.
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After a journalist asked a question at their joint press conference Monday in Helsinki using soccer metaphors, Putin pulled out a red-and-white ball and tossed it at Trump, at the neighboring podium.
Trump said he’d give it to his 12-year-old son Barron, a soccer fan. Then the U.S. president tossed the ball to his wife Melania, sitting in the front row.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Putin critic, tweeted: “if it were me, I’d check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House.”
Russia’s organization of the monthlong World Cup, which ended Sunday, won wide praise.
“if it were me, I’d check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House.”
Oh, please. EVERYTHING that is brought back from Russia (and from any other foreign country for that matter) is screened for electronics. It’s standard US security practice.
Putin’s ball probably has toxic poison in it, like used in England to try to assassinate spies. Traitor Trumpfnik hates our friends and loves our enemies. Sicko in WH.
Better make sure there is no novichok on it.
…a ball and the shaft. And Trump just begs for more. Impeach the traitorous bastard.
Too many trumpferds on VIN.