Calculated or chaotic? Decoding Donald Trump’s ‘pivot’ towards Vladimir Putin
[ad_1] ‘Unpredictable-irrational Donald’: Is Trump redrawing global rules to suit Putin? (Representative AI image) NEW DELHI: Is US President Donald Trump, in his second term, aligning himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin — or is he simply echoing a worldview that conveniently overlaps with the Kremlin’s? A recent analysis by Bloomberg suggests the former, sparking a wave of commentary about whether Trump’s rhetoric and policies are veering dangerously close to Russia’s.Titled “Trump Tells Americans What Putin Wants Them to Hear”, the Bloomberg investigation presents a data-driven assessment of how Trump’s public statements and online posts mirror the Kremlin’s narrative. Using a large language model to examine over 300 public comments by Trump between August 2024 and mid-March 2025, as well as more than 3,000 social media posts from the Trump administration, the study found notable parallels in tone and message.The […]