Trump’s Shameful “Summit” Was Even Worse Than We Thought
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Financial Times’ report, “Putin demanded Ukraine cede Donetsk and Luhansk in exchange for freezing rest of front line“
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| 0:21.2 | bulwark here. We've learned more about what was happening behind the scenes at the Trump-Pooten |
| 0:25.2 | summit, if you want to call it that, in Alaska. And it turns out it was even a more humiliating |
| 0:31.2 | betrayal than it seemed last night. And it seemed pretty humiliating last night. So let's just |
| 0:37.1 | back up for folks who |
| 0:38.4 | missed it. There was a joint statement, I guess. It was a very Russia-style joint statement following |
| 0:44.0 | the meeting where Putin talked, followed by Trump talking last night. I gave a live reaction to that. |
| 0:49.6 | The main takeaway from that was that it was kind of a shocking nothing burger. Like, you know, they both flattered each other. |
| 0:57.3 | Putin gets a win just being able to be there and be treated as an equal and to have Trump |
| 1:01.5 | compliment him and have Trump lie about the Russia hoax. |
| 1:04.0 | The Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, hoax that made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he |
| 1:07.7 | understood it. |
| 1:09.1 | I think he's probably seen things like that during the course of his |
| 1:13.0 | career. He's seen it all. You know, et cetera, et cetera. Putin gets to air his grievances with Ukraine and with |
| 1:20.5 | the West. We've always considered the Ukrainian nation and I've said it multiple times a brother |
| 1:25.9 | nation, how strange it may sound. |
| 1:28.3 | And so, you know, but there wasn't anything of substance. And it seemed as of Friday night that maybe this meeting was just a big zero. |
| 1:38.8 | You know, it was kind of one of those meetings. It could have been an email type meetings. |
| 1:42.1 | Since then, we have learned |
| 1:44.5 | what was being discussed behind the scenes where Trump and Putin said they made progress. |
| 1:50.0 | And it is, you know, maybe not a worst case scenario for Ukraine, but about as close to a |
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