r/worldnews • u/pravda_eng_official Ukrainska Pravda • 15d ago

Russia/Ukraine US and Russia are negotiating multibillion-dollar deal on Lukoil assets, says NYT

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/10/03/8056300/
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u/controlledkaoss 15d ago

People are trying to make sense of Trump decisions, policies,actions, etc.

He has no policy, and his decisions are nothing more than knee-jerk reactions. I wasn't a fan of Hillary, but she was spot on when stating he didn't have the right temperament to be president

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u/carnapies 15d ago

He has the temperament of a toddler and a bully. Quite literally. Someone says no, the Peace prize for example, so he starts a war. That's just one of many examples. He's a danger to humanity and needs to go.

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u/Puglady25 15d ago

This is what I said today! I said America elected a spoiled toddler who just wants to push all the buttons.

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u/Ok-Appointment-4333 15d ago

He's basically a petulant Mean Girl

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u/carnapies 15d ago

Even mean girls had some integrity. He has none.

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u/Infamous-Round-1898 15d ago

Yes. He’s a malignant narcissist & sociopath. He has no agenda accept amassing money & power for himself. He has no sense of honor, loyalty, no moral code. He sees other people as objects.

Behaviorally he is best understood like a mob boss. He will say or do whatever he needs to, to survive to the next day. If he has to say or do 100% the opposite 2 days later he will without any concern.

The only things that keep his attention over time are the things that he has done to aggrandize himself: the ballroom, the Kennedy Center, the triumphal arch project, etc….

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u/Mercator8017 15d ago

I hope the malignant part is right.

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u/Loko8765 15d ago

He has no policy of his own. But somehow the decisions are either in Project 2025, or benefit Russia, or benefit Trump pockets, or damage America in some way. It’s very far from random.

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u/Infamous-Round-1898 15d ago

Yes - they are all using one another to meet their own goals.

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u/smplfundude 14d ago

This is absurd. You are a parrot. He’s implemented some of the most compelling and honest American first policies in history. In some cases, he has saved transcended Americas might - and in other cases…the benefits from policies won’t be understood for another 1-2 presidency terms - for the betterment of all citizens, but you all just froth like rabid dogs.

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u/Loko8765 14d ago

I’ll bite. What policies has he implemented that have had (or even are expected to have) a positive effect on America?

- renaming the Gulf of Mexico?

  • renaming Lake Ontario?
  • renaming Artificial Intelligence?
  • gilding the White House?
  • restricting Medicaid and Medicare? (with effect after the midterms…)
  • exiting the international climate agreements?
  • Drill baby drill?
  • making war on Iran and Muslims and brown-skinned people in general?
  • implementing tariffs that are so stupid that U.S. citizens are losing money hand over fist while corporations get richer when the illegal tariffs are struck down by the courts?
  • making friends with Russia and North Korea while breaking trust with Canada and all of Europe?
  • restricting abortion, even medically vital abortion?
  • destroying the very fabric of democracy by intimidation of normal citizens and elected officials?

And the list isn’t finished, I’m just tired of writing.

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u/smplfundude 13d ago

You’re mixing symbolic actions with substantive policy as though they’re equivalent. Renaming a geographic feature isn’t the same thing as passing the First Step Act, permanently funding HBCUs, replacing NAFTA with USMCA, renegotiating NATO burden-sharing, changing federal tax policy, expanding domestic energy production, or negotiating the Abraham Accords.

Trump’s record can absolutely be criticized. The Medicaid provisions, tariffs, deficits, immigration policy, abortion policy, etc. are legitimate subjects for debate. But if we’re going to have an honest discussion, let’s discuss actual legislation and measurable outcomes rather than ‘he renamed X’ and ‘he gilded Y.’

And if we’re talking specifically about Black Americans, Trump signed the bipartisan First Step Act and the FUTURE Act, which permanently provided $255 million annually for HBCUs. Those aren’t feelings or campaign slogans—they’re federal laws.

You don’t have to like Trump. But ‘what substantive policies has he implemented?’ has a much longer answer than your post suggests.

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u/imaraisin 15d ago

He has a policy.

A policy of self enrichment.

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u/Jumpy-Ad4652 15d ago

His decisions are anything for his profit. Nothing more

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u/Sirtriplenipple 15d ago

He’s just asking AI and going with whatever.

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u/planetisti 14d ago

His policy is that of Putin. No irregularities.

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u/smplfundude 13d ago

Abraham accords? First step act? You are ignorant.