Putin's Alaska Triumph | Drudge Retort

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Russia's leader had good reason to look delighted by his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Posted by LampLighter at 05:31 PM | 65 COMMENTS | permalink

get a load of how excited Trump is to see Putin

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Aug 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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More from the article ...
... Call it the old pals act.

From the moment Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin disembarked from their planes at a Cold War-era air force base outside Anchorage, Alaska, their public interactions were notably friendly -- with the U.S. president applauding the Russian ruler, an exchange of smiles, a pat on the shoulder, an animated but clearly friendly conversation on the red carpet.

And then, after an American military flyover, the stunning protocol-buster of Putin climbing into "the Beast" -- the U.S. president's official car -- to share a limousine ride to the critical summit.

The Russian leader seemed delighted. As well he might. ...

Putin still appears to have got the most out of the encounter.

He secured the meeting, notwithstanding being a wanted man for war crimes, and was greeted on American soil as a friend, not the leader of a pariah state that invaded a sovereign neighbor.

And he got all this without agreeing any major concessions, including a ceasefire, beforehand -- and left Anchorage without having committed to a truce either, despite Trump saying during their joint press conference that his Russian counterpart is keen to save thousands of lives. Apparently not that keen. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 12:17 PM

What a joke this President is. Akeays makes me think of this song by The Bee Gees.

I started a joke which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see that the joke was on me oh no
I started to cry which started the whole world laughing

Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen that the joke was on me

Enjoying your FAFO America? No worries. No one lives forever.

The joke will be over someday soon.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-16 12:37 PM

Akeays?

Always ...

Thx Siri.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-16 12:38 PM

Trump is Putin's Bitch.

The entire world knows it.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-16 01:08 PM

Update ...

Trump told Zelenskiy after summit that Putin wants more of Ukraine
www.reuters.com

... U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because "Russia is a very big power, and they're not", after hosting a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land.

In a subsequent briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a source familiar with the discussion cited Trump as saying the Russian leader had offered to freeze most front lines if Kyiv's forces ceded all of Donetsk, the industrial region that is one of Moscow's main targets.

Zelenskiy rejected the demand, the source said. Russia already controls a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province, which it first entered in 2014.

RUSSIA LIKELY TO WELCOME TRUMP'S COMMENTS

His various comments on the meeting mostly aligned with the public positions of Moscow, which says it wants a full settlement -- not a pause -- but that this will be complex because positions are "diametrically opposed". ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 01:16 PM

Trump told Zelenskiy after summit that Putin wants more of Ukraine

Art of the deal, am I right?

Will we ever find out how much of Alaska Trump gave away?

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-16 01:17 PM

Czech minister slams Putin's nonsense' Ukraine remarks in Trump briefing
www.politico.eu

... Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk lambasted Russian leader Vladimir Putin after the Alaska summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing him of talking garbage about the war with Ukraine.

"From Putin, we heard the same propagandistic nonsense about the 'roots of the conflict' that his state television promotes," Lipavsk wrote on X following statements from the two presidents. "The problem is Russian imperialism, not Ukraine's desire to live freely." ...

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 01:37 PM

Does this Abject Failure of a Distraction of a Travesty of Two Mockeries of a Sham mean that Jeffrey Pedostein is back on the Front Pages?

Or does MAGA think Trump won the meeting, and it's ok if he was Jeff's best friend and Wingman?

(I saw on the news yesterday that Epstein's Pedo Encounters number at least 1,000)

gizmodo.com

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 04:27 PM

Trump must have raped a WHOLE lot of kids.

Putin undoubtedly has kompromat on Trump. Maybe it's not the pee tape. But maybe it's a tape of Trump diddling a child. Maybe it's both. Maybe we got the context wrong of "pee" when it was simply just "p" as in "pedophile." The "p-tape."

#9 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 04:30 PM

" ... a Travesty of Two Mockeries of a Sham"

Is Corky going Bananas?

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-16 04:40 PM

Unashamedly.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 04:41 PM

Trump's Inner Circle Drops F-Bomb Post Putin Alaska Meeting: Michael Wolff | The Daily Beast Podcast

www.youtube.com

You could skip the first couple of mins, but there are some insights throughout, and they have fun with it.

I liked the part where Steven Bannon told Wolff after the Helsinki Meeting with Putin that Trump looked like a, "beaten dog" afterward.

And Bannon asked the question, because Epstein also was there and met with Putin... Bannon pondered out loud what Epstein might have given Putin on Trump.

(sorry for the visual!)

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 05:06 PM

Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit
16 July 2018

Senior Republican Senator John McCain said it was a "disgraceful performance" by a US president.

"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," Mr McCain said in a statement.

Another senior Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, tweeted that it was a "missed opportunity... to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling".

In a series of tweets, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Mr Trump's actions had "strengthened our adversaries while weakening our defences and those of our allies"."

The US Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, also issued a statement saying that the intelligence community had been clear about Russia's "ongoing, pervasive attempts" to undermine US democracy.

Mr Trump responded by tweeting that he had "great confidence in my intelligence people", adding: "I also recognise that in order to build a brighter future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past - as the world's two largest nuclear powers, we must get along."

www.bbc.com

Which is what Trump's Cult has done; they've 'forgotten' the past and now claim that Russian Interference in the Election (whether it was Determinative" or not) was and is a hoax.

No matter the solid evidence that Putin did as much as could to interfere, and Trump appreciates that.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 05:28 PM

#14 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 05:47 PM

What did the Alaska talks between Trump and Putin achieve?
www.dw.com

... 'The winner is Putin'

A spokesperson for the German government in Berlin confirmed that Trump also informed Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European heads of state and government about the talks in Alaska that morning.

Merz and the Europeans then discussed how to proceed without Trump. However, the spokesperson for the German government did not disclose what Trump had agreed, if anything, during the summit.

The Europeans continue to advocate for a three-way summit with Trump, Putin, and Zelenskyy at the table.

In their initial statements, foreign policy experts from the parties in the Bundestag expressed little hope for a breakthrough.

"The winner of this summit is Putin. He was received at the highest level in the US and at the same time managed to circumvent the US threat of secondary sanctions. And all this without making any concessions of his own," said Bundestag member Norbert Rttgen, of the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), in several interviews. ...

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 05:50 PM

@#15 ... He was received at the highest level in the US ...

The photo of Pres Putin sitting in the back seat of the Presidential limo and smiling was a huge win for Pres Putin.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 05:52 PM

Trump Doesn't Know Alaska is Part of the United States

"We'll see what happens," Trump told Baier, speaking about a potential deal with Putin, while on board Air Force One en route to the meeting in Anchorage. "If it's bad, if it's something I don't see a future in, I'm gone, I'll leave," Trump added. "I'll go back to the United States."

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#17 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 05:52 PM

"He was received at the highest level in the US and at the same time managed to circumvent the US threat of secondary sanctions. And all this without making any concessions of his own"

Trump is such a cuck. Putin owns him outright.

#18 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 05:54 PM

Trump Doesn't Know Alaska is Part of the United States
"We'll see what happens," Trump told Baier, speaking about a potential deal with Putin, while on board Air Force One en route to the meeting in Anchorage. "If it's bad, if it's something I don't see a future in, I'm gone, I'll leave," Trump added. "I'll go back to the United States."
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Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 05:52 PM | Reply

WOWSERS He is THAT dumb?? Seriously WOW.

#19 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-16 05:55 PM

#20 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 06:02 PM

And yes, Putin has two left feet.

#21 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 06:04 PM

Aged like milk.

#22 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 06:20 PM

@#18 ... at the same time managed to circumvent the US threat of secondary sanctions ...

It looks that way.

Trump warns of severe consequences' if Russia doesn't stop Ukraine war after Putin meeting (Auguat 13, 2025)
thehill.com

... President Trump warned on Wednesday that there would be "severe consequences" for Russia if it did not agree to stop its war in Ukraine after his meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

"There will be consequences. I don't have to say. There will be very severe consequences," Trump told reporters during an event at the Kennedy Center.

The president previously threatened in July to impose sanctions and secondary tariffs on Russia if Putin did not agree to end the war within 50 days, a deadline he later shortened to early August. ...

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 06:23 PM

The "dominant handshake": This gesture signals control and authority in the interaction by symbolically putting the other person "under" or "beneath" the initiator's hand.

It is a well-recognized body language cue where the palm facing down indicates a desire to take control of the interaction. This is contrasted with a palm-up handshake, which signals submission or giving the other person control.

Right from the get-go, Putin had full control over Trump. And the cult praises Trump's red carpet treatment of his handler.

#24 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 06:31 PM

#25 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 06:40 PM

We've gone from the Helsinki Humiliation to the Anchorage Abomination.

#26 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-16 07:04 PM

President Donald Trump has tried to put a positive spin on his "failure" of a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but things are not as rosy behind the scenes.

Longtime Trump biographer Michael Wolff tells The Daily Beast Podcast that a member of the president's inner circle texted him bluntly on Friday: "F--ked."

The insider did not elaborate.

However, Wolff noted that it is clear that Trump left Alaska as the loser, and those in the president's camp surely know it, too.

thedailybeast.com

#27 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 07:51 PM

@#27 ... However, Wolff noted that it is clear that Trump left Alaska as the loser, and those in the president's camp surely know it, too. ...

And, this seems to be a surprise ... why?

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 08:04 PM

At the "Press Conference" after the meeting, a "Press Conference" at which reporters could not ask questions ...

Pres Putin, the visitor, not the host, of the meeting was the first to speak.

That is so odd.

Then Pres Putin spoke in Russian for 15-20 minutes.

Eventually, Pres Putin allowed Pres trump to speak.

But Pres Trump for less than five minutes.

When has Pres Trump ever been at a loss for words?

I mean, really.

#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 08:10 PM

Pictures of two documents about the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska that were found in a public hotel printer in Anchorage.

These are very unserious people.

#30 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 08:22 PM

Summit puts Putin back on the global stage and Trump echoes a Kremlin position
apnews.com

... In Alaska, President Vladimir Putin walked on a red carpet, shook hands and exchanged smiles with his American counterpart. Donald Trump ended the summit praising their relationship and calling Russia "a big power ... No. 2 in the world," albeit admitting they didn't reach a deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

By Saturday morning Moscow time, Trump appeared to have abandoned the idea of a ceasefire as a step toward peace " something he and Ukraine had pushed for months -" in favor of pursuing a full-fledged "Peace Agreement" to end the war, echoing a long-held Kremlin position. The "severe consequences" he threatened against Moscow for continuing hostilities were nowhere in sight. On Ukraine's battlefields, Russian troops slowly grinded on, with time on their side.

The hastily arranged Alaska summit "produced nothing for Mr. Trump and gave Mr. Putin most of what he was looking for," said Laurie Bristow, a former British ambassador to Russia.

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 08:38 PM

Putin brought Donnie Poodle's leash with him... and destroyed Trump's Epstein Distraction.

Wonder how many taxpayer millions it cost us to fund this charade?

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 08:46 PM

Good to see all the MAGAts treating this thread like Kryptonite. They should be ashamed and embarrassed for America after that debacle.

#33 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-08-16 09:35 PM

@#33 ... Good to see all the MAGAts treating this thread like Kryptonite. They should be ashamed and embarrassed for America after that debacle ...

Ya think?

Stranglers - Skin Deep (1984)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Many people tell you that they're your friend
You believe them, you need them for what's round the river bend
Make sure that you're receiving the signals they send
'Cos brother, you've only got two hands to lend

Maybe there's someone who makes you weep
And some nights loom up ahead when you're asleep
Some days there's things on your mind you should keep
Sometimes, it's tougher to look than to leap

Better watch out for the skin deep
Better watch out for the skin deep
(Better watch out) Watch out for the skin deep
(Better watch out) Watch out for the skin deep
Better watch out for the skin deep

One day the track that you're climbing gets steep
Your emotions are frayed, and your nerves are starting to creep
Just remember the days as long as the time that you keep
Brother, you better watch out for the skin deep
...

#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 09:44 PM

WTF are you clowns gonna do when this war comes to an end? What will be your argument then?

#35 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-16 09:50 PM

@#35 ... WTF are you clowns gonna do when this war comes to an end? ...

That likely depends upon how and why the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Pres Putin ends.

Will it be a Trump-sponsored surrender, as Pres trump seems to be working towards?

Or will it be an end that allows Ukraine to keep its territorial sovereignty?

#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 09:55 PM

Didn't this war come to an end in 24 hours from when Trumpf was elected... or before he even took Office, as he said it would?

Of course, the Cult will believe anything he claims.

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 10:03 PM

Didn't this war come to an end in 24 hours from when Trumpf was elected...

Idk but it started after Biden was elected.

Thanks Joe!

#38 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-16 10:05 PM

Idk

I'll give you a hint: It did not.

#39 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-16 10:08 PM

That likely depends upon how and why the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Pres Putin ends
~ Gaslither.

There's always provocation by both sides, even in Gaza its been a spiraling increase..

Do you ever listen to yourself though? Nobody starts a war without continual increase in escalation.
The issue is the US didn't have a President that wanted to negotiate, to understand Putins problem with the current state of Ukraine.

All you Lumpers go running around Ukraine can pick its own alliances, which is hypocrisy at its best, remember CUBA.

------- morons, read a book learn some history.

#40 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-16 10:09 PM

#38

Speak of the Devil... Cult, and there it is... with his Official One Millionth Inane Biden Whataboutism.

Congrats!

Believing that because you think some lib did something similar previously is some kind of argument to the point, laughable as that is, has brought you a bit of DR History!

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-16 10:12 PM

@#37 ... Didn't this war come to an end in 24 hours from when Trumpf was elected... or before he even took Office, as he said it would? ...

It did not.

And maybe that is why the apparent effort of so many trolling aliases to denigrate.

They seem to know they got nothing besides their usual disruption attempts and insults.

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 10:22 PM

WTF are you clowns gonna do when this war comes to an end? What will be your argument then?
#35 | Posted by lfthndthrds

We're gonna nominate the Pedophile in Chief for the Nobel Peace Prize. Cuz that's what you want, right cultist?

#43 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 10:29 PM

We're gonna nominate the Pedophile in Chief for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No need... Netanyahu already did. Now there's an endorsement.

#44 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-16 10:32 PM

OK, taking a different approach to this topic ...

Why did a President of our Great Country seem to be so willing to abase himself on a world stage?

Was it to try to distract and divert attention from the Epstein files?

imo, this event was more of a distraction attempt.

A distraction that may not have turned out as planned.

#45 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 10:41 PM

A distraction that may not have turned out as planned.

Never rule out the possibility that Lewzer is just an idiot that has no idea what he's doing.

#46 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-16 10:47 PM

Why did a President of our Great Country seem to be so willing to abase himself on a world stage?

Yeah. That's better. The Alaska Abasement.

#47 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-16 10:48 PM

@46 ... Never rule out the possibility that Lewzer is just an idiot that has no idea what he's doing. ...

Going with that ...

During Trump 1.0, he aides seem to ave presented him with guardrails to keep him on track.

But with Trump 2.0, he seems to have chosen his aides with a different criteria.

Not competence, but unfettered adulation.

And, apparently, that choice is beginning to show.

Why did Pres Trump's aidse allow him to walk into this, ummm, I'll call it, situation?

#48 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 11:06 PM

@#40

Wow, new keyboard here.

During Trump 1.0, he aides seem to ave presented him

-- should be ---

During Trump 1.0, his aides seem to have presented him

I'll try to be more attentive to the previews in the future.

#49 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 11:08 PM

Why did Pres Trump's aidse allow him to walk into this, ummm, I'll call it, situation?

No one would dare suggest that his "ideas" are anything less than genius. His VP ain't Dick Cheney.

#50 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-16 11:19 PM

Trump promises 'peace agreement' in Ukraine after Putin summit, reversing calls for a ceasefire
nbcnews.com

... President Donald Trump has promised a "Peace Agreement" to end the war in Ukraine following his summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, dropping his demand for a ceasefire and sparking fears he is moving closer to Putin's position. ...

#51 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 11:48 PM

Trump promises 'peace agreement' in Ukraine after Putin ~~summit~~ told him to get stuffed.

#52 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-16 11:54 PM

#53 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-17 12:01 AM

Didn't this war come to an end in 24 hours from when Trumpf was elected... or before he even took Office, as he said it would?

Of course, the Cult will believe anything he claims.

#37 | Posted by Corky

He also promised to end inflation in 24 hours.

#54 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-08-17 02:00 AM

#55 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-17 03:00 AM

What are you ------- going to do when the cease fire starts in Ukraine?!?!?
#203 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Wow that aged well...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

#216 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

#56 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-17 07:25 AM

----- of the Deal, par excellence.

#57 | Posted by anton at 2025-08-17 10:17 AM

Wow.

Weakest, most pathetic move by a president in the last hundred years...at least.

and as for that lfthandtrds fellow: yeah that cease-fire sure is going well, huh?

#58 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-08-17 10:33 AM

Posted by oneironskull

Troll-bot bull manure.

#59 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-08-17 10:40 AM

We're gonna nominate the Pedophile in Chief for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No need... Netanyahu already did. Now there's an endorsement.

#44 | POSTED BY REDIAL

What a world eh?

I did not realize they let war criminals nominate anyone for anything much less a Nobel.

#60 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-17 11:17 AM

What are you ------- going to do when the cease fire starts in Ukraine?!?!?
#203 | Posted by lfthndthrds

What are you going to do after Trumpy embarrasses himself and humiliates America again in front of the whole world?

Be quick about it because it's already happened. Again.

#61 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-17 11:21 AM

i0.wp.com

#62 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-08-17 11:51 AM

Hey idiot, the difference is the rest of them didn't get rolled by Putin.

Jesus you're f^*%ing stupid.

#63 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 12:06 PM

There's always provocation by both sides, even in Gaza its been a spiraling increase..

How many Ukrainian troops did Ukraine send into Russian territory in order to provoke a war with Russia?

It doesn't have to be an exact number. An approximation will do.

THANKS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN THIS MATTER

#64 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-18 12:33 PM

I'm so old, I remember Paul Manafort's role in this.

Putin owns FDT, and he is starting to demand results for all that election stealing he did for him.

At this point, we have to assume that the entire Repubican Party is compromised by Russia - what was on that RNC server that the pedo Party is so afraid of being released?

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