more palatable?
The full context is that a senile old man, with a massive ego, is so crushed that he lost to another senile old man (by 7m votes), that he lavishes praise on his buddy Putin in an effort to criticize the POTUS.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1496221147729481732/photo/1
Putin & Kim - the two world leaders that your guy admires.....