Idiot Quote by Alexander Vindman

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

— Steve Schmidt

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

— Hannah Teter

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

— David Remnick

Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan.

— Masha Gessen

I think what we're learning with the Trump Jr. meeting is when you meet with any Russians, you're meeting with Russian intelligence. And, therefore,…

— Mike Quigley

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a…

— David Brooks

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.,"…

— David Brooks

That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

— Naomi Klein

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

— Tina Brown

You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to…

— David Cameron

Donald Trump didn't even understand, right, that [Vladimir] Putin was playing him. So, in Putin's mind, I have no doubt that Putin thinks that…

— Michael Morell

Trump is a travelling freak show, and bound to say or do something laughably stupid wherever he goes, so, because he's president, he's news.

— Neil Macdonald