Opinion: How Trump Just Exposed Himself as America’s True Enemy Within

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters/British Cartoon Archive/University of Kent Donald Trump is Vladimir Putin’s Шестёрка.

The word means “lackey” or “underling.” Pronounced shes-TYOR-kah, it comes from the name for the lowest value card in a Russian deck.

Americans might use other terms.

Stooge.

Tool.

Poodle.

Flunkey.

B--ch.

Semantic nuances aside, the meanings are roughly the same.

The president of the United States is a puppet of the war criminal and thug who rules Russia.

That is not news.

Trump’s spineless, morality-free effort to ingratiate himself to the former KGB officer dates back many years and has been evident since Trump first invited Putin to attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

Putin declined.

But Trump kept trying.