polezni durak,

[yortsed snacilbuper]

That's what the Russians call trump, guess what it means?

[sakabatou]

1. Useful idiot

[Major Nikon]

2. I guessed Pootin's lap dog

So not far off.

[Igel]

3. It's also what the Russians say

an ex-CIA director called Trump.

House divided and all that nonsense.

[Igel]

4. You need the yod at the end.

Poleznyi, most translation standards would have it. It suffices.

My advisor would have written pol,eznij, in his best quasi-Jakobsonian morphophonemics. US Geographic Board would write poleznyy.

Durak is just durak. Everything's pharyngealized or plain.