MOSCOW MOCKS TRUMP’S ‘THEATRICAL ULTIMATUM’: The reaction to President Donald Trump’s latest ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin might best be described as dismissive scorn. “As so often with Trump, the teaser was more interesting than the main show,” one Russian pundit wrote in a popular newspaper, according to Steve Rosenberg, Russia editor for BBC News.

Former Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, who often serves as a hatchet man for Putin, mocked Trump in a sarcastic post on X, “Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care,” he wrote.