President Donald Trump lashed out at the criticism he’s faced for his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, which failed to result in a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
“The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a ‘major defeat’ by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States,” Trump wrote on Sunday evening in a Truth Social post that did not mention the outcome of the summit. “Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the US, and the Fake News knows this. It was a major point of contention!”
Trump argued that his critics wouldn’t have been pleased even “if we had the Summit elsewhere” because “the Democrat run and controlled media would have said what a terrible thing THAT was.”
Claiming “these people are sick,” Trump transitioned into boasting about improving the crime in Washington, DC, and his efforts to “secure [the] Southern Border.”
“They even want CRIME IN D.C., and other BLUE Cities throughout our Country, but don’t worry, I won’t let that happen. Just like our now secure Southern Border (ZERO illegals in last 3 months!), our cities will be Secure and Safe, and D.C. will lead the way!”
The president followed up his lengthy comments by attacking Senator Chris Murphy (Democrat, Connecticut), who had slammed the Trump-Putin summit as an “embarrassment to the United States” Sunday while appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press.
“The very unattractive (both inside and out!) Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said ‘Putin got everything that he wanted.’ Actually, ‘nobody got anything,’ too soon, but getting close,” Trump wrote in a separate Truth Social post Sunday. “Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made the Russian President look good in coming to America. Actually, it was very hard for President Putin to do so.”
Wrapping up his post, Trump also called out his former national security adviser John Bolton, who told CNN that Putin had “won the summit” over a “tired” Trump.
“This war can be ended, NOW, but stupid people like Chris Murphy, John Bolton, and others, make it much harder to do so,” Trump added.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska.Just minutes later, Trump directed his attention to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arguing that Zelenskyy could “end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to.” He then bashed former President Barack Obama.
“President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump wrote. “Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!”
Trump’s slew of pointed posts aimed at his opponents didn’t stop there.
Just hours before he was scheduled to host Zelenskyy at the White House, Trump railed against “badly failing Radical Left Democrats.”
“I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, ‘We give up, we concede, we surrender, we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Country,’” Trump wrote in a Monday Truth Social post.
He added: “But that’s why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”
Minutes later, Trump claimed in a post that the “Russia/Ukraine MESS” is “Sleepy Joe Biden’s war, not mine,” adding, “ I’m only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further. It would have NEVER happened if I was President.”
Elsewhere in the post, Trump claimed that The Wall Street Journal and “many other” news outlets “don’t have a clue” about the number of conflicts he’s resolved since his second term began.
“I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don’t have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong…”
Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Monday marks the Ukrainian leader’s first White House visit since the two had a highly contentious meeting in February.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy praised Trump’s strength in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday morning ahead of their meeting.
“We discussed the battlefield situation and our strong diplomatic capabilities – Ukraine’s and all of Europe’s together with America,” he wrote. “Russia can only be forced into peace through strength, and President Trump has that strength. We have to do everything right to make peace happen. Thank you!”
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