“I’m embarrassed for my country” | David Cay Johnston slams Trump-Putin summit after no deal

Aug 16, 2025

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  1. Taco has proven once again that putin owns him. It was a humiliation for him AND for our nation to even invite a war criminal into our country and to give it a red carpet treatment. It’s also a slap in the face of hundreds of thousands of victims and destroyed lives.
    So, the Alaska meeting was the bleakest day in our history. Can taco reach new lows? Yes, unfortunately, chances are he will.

    • Professor Roman Sheremeta:

      Trump: “We are pretty close to a deal. Ukraine has to agree to it. Maybe they will say no.”

      I said this almost half a year ago: “Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine. To him, Ukraine is merely an obstacle to a strong relationship with russia. To eliminate this obstacle, he first has to ensure that russia regained control of the Kursk region. The next step is for Trump to reunite with his good friend — the war criminal Putin — and rebuild U.S.-russia relations. For that to happen, he must either force Ukraine to capitulate (which Ukraine will not accept) or blame Ukraine for refusing “peace.” Predictably, Putin will propose unacceptable peace terms at Ukraine’s expense. Trump will then claim Putin is ready for a ceasefire, but when Ukraine rejects the terms, Trump will accuse Ukraine of not wanting “peace.” He will scapegoat Ukraine and blame Zelensky for the failure of negotiations.”

      A great day for russia.
      A shameful day for the United States.
      A painful day for Ukraine.

      These images will be remembered as the defining failure of Trump’s presidency — a presidency already marked by incompetence and moral bankruptcy.

      The worst president in U.S. history.

      Nothing. Impotence. Moral bankruptcy.

      That’s the summary of Trump’s meeting with war criminal Putin.

      For months, Trump threatened russia with “two more weeks” and set an August 8 deadline. The deadline passed — nothing happened. No consequences, no sanctions, just empty words.

      Today in Alaska — again nothing. No ceasefire, no sanctions, just empty words.

      And Putin goes back to killing Ukrainians.

      Disgrace.

      Trump: “I’ve always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir… We were, interfered with by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.”

      Putin read a prepared statement about U.S.–Soviet cooperation during World War II — and how both countries “defeated a common enemy.”

      Then he claimed that “Ukraine is a brotherly nation” and that “everything that is happening is a tragedy.”

      And of course, he boasted that bilateral trade between russia and the U.S. has grown by 20% since Trump became president.

      I never thought I’d live to see U.S. soldiers kneel to roll out a red carpet for a modern-day Führer — Putin.

      • I simply can’t get the image out of my head with our soldiers on their knees as they roll out that fucking red carpet for that filthy little cockroach war criminal and mass murderer.

  2. No disrespect intended towards the guest, who gave a restrained but good response to this ghastly spectacle, but he stated that the Donbas is “ethnically more Russian than Ukraine.”

    Wrong, not even close. Only Crimea has an ethic Russian majority and that is entirely due to Lenin and Stalin inserting Russians there.

    Prior to 1920, the majority were Tatars, followed by Ukrainians.

    The dignity of the United States has suffered terrible damage, but great pain has been inflicted upon Ukraine. Again.

    Adrian Blomfield in the DT yesterday said :

    In 2018, Mr Trump emerged from a two-hour meeting with Putin in Helsinki openly dazzled, accepting the Russian’s denial of election interference over the findings of his own intelligence agencies and embracing his proposal for a joint US-Russia cyber task force. John McCain, the late Republican senator, called it “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory”.

    One can hardly even imagine what John would have said today after Alaska.

    • And even in Crimea, most people that I know there hate the ruskies, who they see as sludge, dirt, and bacteria.

  3. Professor Roman Sheremeta:

    Trump: “We are pretty close to a deal. Ukraine has to agree to it. Maybe they will say no.”

    I said this almost half a year ago: “Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine. To him, Ukraine is merely an obstacle to a strong relationship with russia. To eliminate this obstacle, he first has to ensure that russia regained control of the Kursk region. The next step is for Trump to reunite with his good friend — the war criminal Putin — and rebuild U.S.-russia relations. For that to happen, he must either force Ukraine to capitulate (which Ukraine will not accept) or blame Ukraine for refusing “peace.” Predictably, Putin will propose unacceptable peace terms at Ukraine’s expense. Trump will then claim Putin is ready for a ceasefire, but when Ukraine rejects the terms, Trump will accuse Ukraine of not wanting “peace.” He will scapegoat Ukraine and blame Zelensky for the failure of negotiations.”

    A great day for russia.
    A shameful day for the United States.
    A painful day for Ukraine.

    These images will be remembered as the defining failure of Trump’s presidency — a presidency already marked by incompetence and moral bankruptcy.

    The worst president in U.S. history.

    Nothing. Impotence. Moral bankruptcy.

    That’s the summary of Trump’s meeting with war criminal Putin.

    For months, Trump threatened russia with “two more weeks” and set an August 8 deadline. The deadline passed — nothing happened. No consequences, no sanctions, just empty words.

    Today in Alaska — again nothing. No ceasefire, no sanctions, just empty words.

    And Putin goes back to killing Ukrainians.

    Disgrace.

    Trump: “I’ve always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir… We were, interfered with by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.”

    Putin read a prepared statement about U.S.–Soviet cooperation during World War II — and how both countries “defeated a common enemy.”

    Then he claimed that “Ukraine is a brotherly nation” and that “everything that is happening is a tragedy.”

    And of course, he boasted that bilateral trade between russia and the U.S. has grown by 20% since Trump became president.

    I never thought I’d live to see U.S. soldiers kneel to roll out a red carpet for a modern-day Führer — Putin.

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