Putin, Trump to Meet 1-on-1, Plus Joint Press Conference

Thursday, August 14, 2025

The Kremlin has announced the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska will be 1-on-1, with only translators present during the Ukraine war talks " and a press conference is set to follow.

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Putin confirmed his measure of this pathetic mook seven years ago in Helsinki. In the newsbiz you'd put "30" to that.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-14 06:24 AM

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-14 06:33 AM

Putin supplying both translators, I assume?

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-14 09:44 AM

www.newsweek.com

Map Shows Alaska's Natural Resources That Trump Could Offer Putin
Published Aug 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT

#4 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-14 12:13 PM

It is truly sad that a great nation like the U.S. has to be represented by such a con mam as Trump!
No matter how much he promises Putin for peace he will claim to be a great dealmaker and peacemake cease fire that could end r. I expect niether tomorrow but I'd love to be surprised if Trump brings a fair agreement that could end Putin's evil war but I won't hold my breath.

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-14 08:24 PM

@#5 ... It is truly sad that a great nation like the U.S. has to be represented by such a con mam as Trump! ...

I am awaiting the outcome of this meeting to see if Pres Trump still seems to be sub-servant to Pres Putin, as he was in the 2018 Helsinki conference.

foreignpolicy.com

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 09:16 PM

So, will Der Dotard give away California, New York or both? Asking for a country...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-15 08:28 AM

Will Putin's translators be a group of specially selected 12 year old girls? If so, will Trump insist on weekly summits?

#8 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-08-15 08:31 AM

No doubt about Trump's favoritism for "tough" autocrats who have something Trump covets. Trump's been groomed (brainwashed) by KGB affiliates since the 1970s when he began cavorting with Ivana Zelnikova. Her parents were informants for the then KGB-affiliated secret police. After that, Donald's and Ivana's children were raised on the laps of their then communist autocracy-supporting grandparents.

No wonder Trump's casinos would launder money for Eastern bloc entities, and no wonder Trump bristled at the West's counter-intel and counter organized crime networks. His casinos were fined over 2 dozen times for violating anti-money laundering laws and many of his wealthy Russian occupants of his properties were identified as having suspicious nefarious ties to Moscow.

With over 50 years' grooming from Russia's autocratic oligarchs, it's doubtful Trump has the guts to be tough on Putin.

#9 | Posted by Augustine at 2025-08-15 08:36 AM

Putin visits U.S. for Trump summit as a peer, not a pariah

www.axios.com

The wolf has been welcomed into the henhouse

#10 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-15 08:51 AM

I wonder if Epstein was also a Russian asset.

#11 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-08-15 11:21 AM

He certainly would love to (give away California and New york) but unfortunately he can't.

#12 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-15 01:23 PM

Any decent human being would have asked Putin how many children he had murdered that morning before leaving for America! I would have hand sanitizer available after shaking hands with that murderer. I wish the TV network I was watching would have had the death toll number on the screen constantly increasing as he walked the red carpet with Trump who seems to be mesmerized by his guest!

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-15 06:01 PM

How long did it take for the demented orange pedo to fill his diaper with Putin's essence?

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-15 06:59 PM

Press conference canceled!

No agreement no deal no nothing ... Trumpy was too embarrassed to have an actual press conference.

Only brief statements so Trumpy didn't have to explain why he is an idiot and why he humiliated America once again.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-16 11:06 AM

Putin is Alpha.

Trump. Alpha lite.

This outcome was foreseeable.

Trump can't keep up mentally with Putin.

That's Clear.