August 16, 2025 – Translated from French via Google Translate
- Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for more than two hours on Friday, without reaching an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
- Both presidents appeared satisfied with their meeting, deeming it “productive” and “constructive.”
- But in newspapers around the world, disappointment dominates.
Organized at the last minute, will the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin ultimately have been disappointing? This is the question that arises this Saturday, August 16, as the two presidents held a long meeting on Friday at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Alaska. While the stated objective was to conclude a ceasefire on the Ukrainian front, no agreement was ultimately announced. It doesn’t matter to the two men, Donald Trump speaking of a “very productive” meeting and his Russian counterpart of a
“constructive”
exchange.
The press remains skeptical, however, across the Atlantic, but also in Europe.
A “former KGB spy” in Donald Trump’s car
The Washington Post(new window)
For example, the newspaper mentions “warm words”
but a “premature end”
to the meeting. As proof, although the talks were scheduled to last six to seven hours, they ultimately lasted only three hours. “The summit began with a red carpet and ended with an early and sober exit,” the newspaper writes on its website. The
Wall Street Journal
echoes the same sentiment.(new window), for whom “Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin but didn’t get much in return
. “
For the New York Times(new window)
, the two leaders displayed “their friendship”
, allowing “President Vladimir Putin to end his diplomatic isolation”
. “President Trump’s failure to reach an agreement only made his warm welcome to the Russian leader even more striking”
, notes the East Coast daily.
On television, CNN, known for not being popular with the Republican camp, questioned the fact of having agreed to let Vladimir Putin, “a former KGB spy
“ride in the presidential car
.” Even Fox News, closer to Donald Trump’s ideas, did not praise the results of the summit, not knowing whether to “rejoice”
or not, as our special correspondent in Alaska, Hélène Bonnet, explains in the video at the top of this article.
Donald Trump “humiliated” by Vladimir Putin?
For the Toronto Star(new window)
, the best-selling newspaper in Canada, the American neighbor simply left Alaska “empty-handed
.” On the European side, surprise also dominates. Le Monde
(new window)highlights the “manifest failure”
of the White House tenant: “In reality, no one knows what was negotiated in Anchorage.”
Donald Trump would thus have shown himself “incapable of forcing his Russian counterpart”
to resolve the conflict which has lasted for more than three years.
In Spain, El Pais
believes that “the Russian president has remained entrenched in his positions despite the enthusiastic welcome given by the Americans in Alaska
.” In an editorial titled “Trump’s failures,” the critics go even further: “The Alaska summit will be remembered as the failure of the amateur diplomacy that Trump’s corrupt cronyism has installed within the government.”
The assessment is even harsher, according to the German newspaper Die Welt
. The journalists there emphasize what looks like a Russian victory, with Vladimir Putin managing “to humiliate his host
. “
Unsurprisingly, the Ukrainian press is disappointed, as hopes for a truce were already slim, as Kiev had not been invited to Anchorage. “This meeting was disgusting, but Putin loved it,”
is the headline in the Kyiv Independent. And the adjectives follow one after the other: a “shameful”
summit, “and ultimately pointless
.”
The sad part about all this is TACO will be the only person in the world who thinks he did a great job. Anyway it’s time for some more Ukrainian sanctions this weekend.
This would be the very best answer to this humiliating nothingburger.
When you set yourself up to be the centre of attention, you have to make sure you come out of it as a winner. TACO got the attention, but nothing positive came out of it.
Please name one positive thing that has ever been served out of the taco stand.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Nope, nothing there.
The worldwide news has more negative thoughts about this than positive ones, unless you look at the usual dictatorships and other shitholes.
The Russian president in the Beast…………………..thats says it all……………….
Better sweep it for bugs…
Zel cannot surrender the part of the Donbas that he controls to the putinaZis. He knows it will be lethal for his administration and lethal to the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians living there.
It could also be terminal for Ukraine.
So what’s left?
More war?
Or lines frozen as per Captain Cornflake’s April 2024 drivel : “America First.”
What else is there?
Thoughts?
Jens Christian Jensen wrote before the Alaska shitshow :
“Trump has offered to participate in a possible security guarantee for Ukraine as part of a ceasefire. BUT let me remind the US Administration that US already gave Ukraine a security guarantee in 1994, when Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal. The current US Administration did however remove this from the White House website…
On the other part of the meeting we have putin. So far russia has signed more than 20 ceasefire agreements with Ukraine, and violated every single one of them…
So when a liar and a liar meet – what can we expect the outcome to be?
We are back to the start – Europe are home alone, neither russia or US can be trusted… we must realize this and begin acting accordingly.”
We do hope that the Europeans have a backup plan. It would be highly negligent not to, seeing what a total loser and spineless wimp that fat orange creep is.
Im sure the 1994 agreement is Bidens fault in someones head.
That would be the fault of another alleged pedophile.🙄
Monica Lewinsky was not a minor.
Plus, she was willing. Eager, even.
Was referring to the multiple times he went to Epstein Island not the time he left stains on Monica’s clothes.🤣
There’s no evidence that he was ever there.
In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation. Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail. But he has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.
There are two people who say Mr. Clinton did visit the island. One of Mr. Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, told a reporter in 2011 that she recalled seeing Mr. Clinton on the island, at a dinner after he left office. Doug Band, a former aide to Mr. Clinton, also said in a 2020 article that the former president visited the island in 2003. But in that article and in a 2019 statement, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton denied that he had ever visited it.
Regardless, he should be investigated … everyone even remotely connected with Epstein should be investigated.
No doubt. Do you get this sort of crap too, across the social media, when you have to deal with maga morons? It’s either Biden or Kamala.
Or Obama. (They love to blame the Black guy.)
Mickey Mouse would be suitable, too, as long as their orange god is kept in the clear.