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Pres. Donald Trump’s erratic behavior and instances of apparent emotional instability have got even his supporters in Moscow rattled, according to reports.
Vanity Fair’s The Hive blog said Friday that after months of fawning, favorable treatment by Russian media, in late January and early February, “coverage began to taper off and then, oddly, turn lackluster and sour.”
Trump — who was previously portrayed much as Russian media portrays its own blustering oligarchs, as a man of courage with a “noble heart” — is now being described as a poor planner who did not anticipate the strength and magnitude of the resistance he would face.
“Over the last week or two, the state-run news service RIA Novosti has portrayed Trump as besieged by enemies at home,” said The Hive’s Peter Savodnik. “Then, in late February, the news service quoted Sergei Ivanov, the former chief of staff of the presidential administration, saying that the Russian media, which had formerly been ‘overly optimistic’ about Trump, had assumed a more ‘pragmatic’ approach.”
Vanity Fair’s The Hive blog said Friday that after months of fawning, favorable treatment by Russian media, in late January and early February, “coverage began to taper off and then, oddly, turn lackluster and sour.”
Trump — who was previously portrayed much as Russian media portrays its own blustering oligarchs, as a man of courage with a “noble heart” — is now being described as a poor planner who did not anticipate the strength and magnitude of the resistance he would face.
“Over the last week or two, the state-run news service RIA Novosti has portrayed Trump as besieged by enemies at home,” said The Hive’s Peter Savodnik. “Then, in late February, the news service quoted Sergei Ivanov, the former chief of staff of the presidential administration, saying that the Russian media, which had formerly been ‘overly optimistic’ about Trump, had assumed a more ‘pragmatic’ approach.”