US taxpayers paid 10s of millions dollars by having the US Air Force escort Putin to and from Russia. Including the F-35 Presidential escorts for Air Force One. The Russian State media is laughing, having a propaganda field day. Putin came home as a victor
— Donbas Samizdat (Донбасс Самиздат) (@DonbasDIY) August 16, 2025
America First? Suckers pic.twitter.com/OymYSGtEvK
Russian state media is showing American soldiers on their knees for Putin. This was a massive Trump failure and a humiliating day for the United States pic.twitter.com/xqYyoQvWXu
— emily (@emnode) August 16, 2025
A state department staffer seems to have left behind 8 pages of info on a hotel printer about the Trump-Putin summit.
— Chiara Eisner 🎤 (@ChiaraEisner) August 16, 2025
We published each of them.
See what they say for yourself: Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer https://t.co/qFNNbFy9V5
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something — one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting.' He said, 'mail in voting, every election — no country has mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting and have honest… pic.twitter.com/glEXFHWp6u
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 16, 2025
Some examples of countries that use postal ballots include:
Australia
Austria
Canada
Czechia
Denmark
Finland
France (for citizens abroad)
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
Malaysia
Mexico
Norway
Philippines
Singapore
Spain
Sweden (for citizens abroad)
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States (various states)
Putin got Trump to applaud, American soldiers to bend their knees fixing the red carpet in front of RUSSIA in all caps.
— Oleksiy Sorokin (@mrsorokaa) August 15, 2025
Putin got his photo op, and gave Trump nothing. Russian propaganda will love it. pic.twitter.com/QqF24rqyPC
Trump got nothing from today. Putin got legitimacy.
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) August 15, 2025
Freaking pathetic.
Tapper: So despite the fact that president Trump called this an extremely productive meeting.. there doesn't seem to have actually been anything achieved, at least according to what the two men just said pic.twitter.com/S1eQg4Plu8
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 15, 2025
Absolutely nothing of value was said or done in Alaska. All that happened was putin got the legitimacy he craves & then invited Trump to Moscow. Total joke pic.twitter.com/Zz63jGxt8Z
— Caolan (@CaolanReports) August 15, 2025
Putin invites Trump to Moscow.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 15, 2025
Putin says the war in Ukraine wouldn't have happened if Trump had been President. (It was ongoing when Trump became President).
NOTHING Announced.
Trump thanked him. Took no questions and both men walked off stage. pic.twitter.com/0NXU1uVS1Y
This is how an American president should treat Putin. No laughs, no fun handshakes, no casual conversation. You treat him like the war criminal that he is.
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) August 15, 2025
Instead, Trump rolls out the red carpet and embraces him. pic.twitter.com/QqwpBoKcAt
🚨HOLY SH*T: Trump just THANKED Vladimir Putin for “wanting to stop thousands of people a week from being killed” in a war he STARTED.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) August 15, 2025
Is he going to get on his knees too? pic.twitter.com/MRhN8dl56B
What fucking meeting were you watching? https://t.co/Qmk6kPrz8u
— Andrew—#IAmTheResistance—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) August 15, 2025
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Scottie's Playtime 
But to me, it seems as if people would be better off if reporters focused on what actually happened, using true sources, and left out all the opinionating and sound bites. I’ve seen such reporting; either AP or Guardian has it. The whole thing about this “summit” and whatever did happen and whatever’s deep fake, it was all an optical thing for Trump and Putin. The rest of it does people no good.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/16/putin-trump-summit-alaska-us-europe-ukraine-security-guarantees-zelenskyy-latest-news-updates?page=with:block-68a09a868f083c08b2003bcf
I saw on franc24 that Putin has fired upon two frontline villages in Ukraine this morning. Our morning, their morning, I don’t know time zones. But there’s a broken promise already.
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Hi Ali. I like the Guardian and post from it often. I will hope to post some articles I saved over the last two weeks. I would love the news with facts of what happened without the editorializing or bias. But that is hard to find as people color what they see based on their own experiences and opinions. As you say it is up to people to check the information out to see if other reporting agrees. There are also several websites that rate news sources bias like https://www.biasly.com/media-bias-chart/us-main/ and Ground News. As for Putin when Ukraine offered to give up their nuclear missiles Russia promised not to invade and to protect them. So much for a Putin promise. Once KGB always KGB. Hugs
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