'Well Done, Old Man!' Russian State TV Revels in Trump Having 'Destroyed Trust' in the Economy [View all]

Source: Mediaite.com

Even as some of his most loyal defenders jump ship, there is at least one constituency President Donald Trump can count on for support — Russian state media. According to a translation from Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis — who monitors Russian State media — the analysts on the show The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov went wild for the Trump tariffs.

Among those to praise him was political scientist Dmitry Kulikov, who lauded Trump for wanting “to break everything” and mused that “It looks like the end of the global system is coming, the global system that is about fifty years old.” “The price of goods will certainly go up in the United States,” Kulikov predicted. “The old political and economic global system is practically dead.”

Host Vladimir Solovyov added, “Trump destroyed the trust” — and called for a statue to be built in his honor. “A monument should be erected to him,” Solovyov said. “This was a major blow to the system of capitalism …I think he deserves at least a Sutulov medal.”

According to Davis, a “Sutulov medal” is not as prestigious as it might sound, but rather “a gag gift”. “A well-known Russian expression that describes a worthless award that is given by a master to his servant,” Davis wrote at the Daily Beast.

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