An excerpt from Trump and Harris’s first presidential debate from the previous year is circulating online.
Recent events have brought Kamala Harris’ prediction on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s relationship back into the spotlight.
Social media users have once again begun sharing a video from the first presidential debate last year, in which Democrat Harris appeared to hint to Trump’s increasing ties to Russia and Putin. According to the Guardian, Russia’s deputy foreign minister has now stated that talks are in progress for a meeting between the two leaders.
Harris, 60, is seen saying to the 78-year-old Republican, “Why don’t you tell the 800,000 Polish-Americans, right here in Pennsylvania, how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch,” in a video that was uploaded to X with the caption, “You can’t say she didn’t call it.”
“She saw it coming,” wrote one X user after viewing the video. It wasn’t long.
Word for word! “Bar for bar!” jokingly said one second.
An additional comment said, “God, I loved this part of the debate but hate the reality now.”
“She said he’d get eaten for lunch by Putin,” a fourth person added. “He got eaten for lunch by Putin.”
This particular video has resurfaced after Trump was questioned by reporters this week about whether he would characterize Putin as a “dictator.”
He said, “I don’t use those words lightly,” after a clumsy silence. “We’re going to see how everything turns out, I believe.
“Let’s observe what occurs. We have a decent possibility of reaching a solution between the different nations, in my opinion.
And, you know, you’re talking about Europe and Ukraine as part of that whole problem,” he went on. There is also strong backing for the other side.
Let us observe how everything turns out. It could work out.
Kamala Harris was right: “Those dictators are rooting for you because they know they can manipulate you with flattery and favors”
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 12, 2025
Trump today: “President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, “COMMON SENSE.” We both believe very strongly in it.” pic.twitter.com/wiKxnLoHGQ
You can never make up lives, you see. Money is something you can fake, but lives are something you cannot.
At his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, he also made the untrue assertion that Ukraine “started” telling reporters last week: “You’ve been there for three years.” You ought to have stopped it. It should never have been begun by you. You may have reached an agreement.
Numerous Americans have taken offense at Trump’s most recent remarks.
Since then, many of people on social media have noted that the controversial politician apparently had no qualms about calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” last week.
In a February 19 speech in Florida, Trump said that Zelensky “was really good at playing Joe Biden like a fiddle,” according to the BBC.
His remarks followed the Ukrainian leader’s response to discussions between the US and Russia that did not include Kyiv.
The 47-year-old Zelensky said the US president was “living in a disinformation space” at the time.
First, Trump responded by posting a statement on his personal social media account, Truth Social, in which he accused the Ukrainian of doing “a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”
Later that day, in a speech, he called Zelensky a “dictator” and stated: “He opposes elections. In actual Ukrainian surveys, he is ranked low.
“How can you be high with every city being demolished?”
