Trump Meets Putin, Zelensky/Euro Leaders to Huddle at White House | The Illegal U-turn Heard 'Round the World | 8/18/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Aaron McIntire covers the fallout from the Trump-Putin Alaska summit, where no Ukraine peace deal was reached, but a follow-up meeting with Zelensky and European leaders is set for today. Putin claims no war would’ve happened under Trump, while Marco Rubio defends the summit’s purpose. A tragic illegal U-turn by an illegal immigrant trucker in Florida kills three, sparking outrage and Stephen Miller’s fiery response. A viral video of Rylie, a 24-year-old Texan, being rejected on a blind dating show divides the internet along gender lines. Plus, a hodgepodge of news: Texas Democrats face arrest warrants, a South Carolina gubernatorial candidate’s unhinged arrest, and a TikTok influencer’s ICE detention.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 18th, 2025. One historic meeting is in the books while another looms. |
| 0:05.7 | An illegal U-turn heard round the world and why one unassuming young lady has divided the internet next on the AM update. That's the moment. |
| 0:28.6 | A B-2 stealth bomber, along with four escorts, buzzed both President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:36.6 | ahead of the duo's historic meeting in Alaska on Friday. |
| 0:41.4 | According to President Trump in a late-night post on Truth Social, quote, |
| 0:45.3 | a great and very successful day in Alaska, the meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia went very well, |
| 0:51.1 | as did a late-night phone call with President Zelensky of Ukraine and various |
| 0:55.5 | European leaders, including the highly respected Secretary General of NATO. |
| 0:59.9 | It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine |
| 1:04.2 | is to go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war and not a mere ceasefire agreement. |
| 1:11.0 | Later on today, in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:14.1 | There's a meeting slated to go down featuring Ukrainian President Zelensky, |
| 1:18.4 | Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, French President Emmanuel Macron, NATO Secretary |
| 1:23.5 | General Mark Rutte, Germany Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, European Commission President |
| 1:27.5 | Ursula von der Leyen, and Finland President Alexander Stub. Of course, the topic is ending the war |
| 1:33.4 | in Ukraine. President Zelensky of Ukraine said in a post on social media over the weekend |
| 1:40.4 | in the aftermath of that Trump-Putin meeting, killings must stop as soon as possible. The fire must cease both on the battlefield and in the aftermath of that Trump-Putton meeting. Killings must stop as soon as possible. |
| 1:44.9 | The fire must cease both on the battlefield and in the sky as well as against our port |
| 1:49.1 | infrastructure. |
| 1:50.4 | He said he's not going to give up any territory that Russians have not captured. |
| 1:55.5 | Here is President Putin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a news conference in Alaska on Friday. |
| 2:01.6 | I'd like to remind you that in 20, 22, during the last contact with the previous administration, |
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