Opinion - Putin is sending a not-so-friendly message to Trump
Is Vlad dissing the Donald? It sure looks like it.
A few days ago, Russias prime-time 60 Minutes program congratulated Melania Trump on her husbands electoral victory by displaying on air a handful of nude photographs of the future first lady that had originally appeared in GQ Magazine in 2000.
President-elect Trump may or may not have found the photographs to be offensive, but he was likely miffed by their appearance in Putins propaganda media. Make no mistake, it was Putin, and not the programs obnoxious hosts Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeeva, who decided to show the pics. That both were visibly amused only underlined the degree to which the photos were meant to embarrass, not to celebrate.
It gets worse. Not only did Putin show the photos, but he did so before formally congratulating Trump on his victory, while also denying the veracity of the Washington Posts report that he had spoken with Trump by telephone.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-putin-sending-not-friendly-150000968.html