WASHINGTON, DC – President Donald Trump fired back at various mainstream media outlets earlier in August, lambasting newsrooms he deemed to be promoting “unfair” coverage of his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin by way of quoting pundits the president labeled as “fired losers.”
On August 15th, President Trump is slated to have a meeting with Putin at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, with the meeting in question being described as a summit meant to seek a resolution to Russia’s three-year war with Ukraine, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“The goal of this meeting for the president is to walk away with a better understanding of how we can end this war,” Leavitt told members of the press on August 12th.
The significance of the meeting in Alaska cannot be understated, with it having been four years since Putin has met in person with a sitting president and ten years since Putin last stepped foot on American soil, with the last time being his attendance at the U.N. General Assembly in New York back in 2015.
One matter that has come to be expected regarding media outlets critical of the current administration is that whenever Trump and Putin are part of any equation, be it a meeting or sharing of similar sentiments on any topic, such media outlets will often point to or platform pundits guilty of bloviating doom-monger theories of what’s motivating or at stake whenever Trump and Putin are in the mix of a topical matter.
The aforementioned media spin tactics aren’t lost on President Trump, who took to social media earlier in August after the hit pieces came flooding in on the impending meeting with Putin in Alaska.
On August 13th, President Trump wrote, “Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’”
The sitting president was clearly flabbergasted by the conclusion reached by Bolton regarding a meeting that has yet to come to fruition, adding, “What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught.”
According to President Trump, his ultimate goal in the upcoming summit with Putin is to arrange a cease fire, a promise the president made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as being his highest priority with this meeting.
On August 15th, President Trump is slated to have a meeting with Putin at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, with the meeting in question being described as a summit meant to seek a resolution to Russia’s three-year war with Ukraine, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“The goal of this meeting for the president is to walk away with a better understanding of how we can end this war,” Leavitt told members of the press on August 12th.
The significance of the meeting in Alaska cannot be understated, with it having been four years since Putin has met in person with a sitting president and ten years since Putin last stepped foot on American soil, with the last time being his attendance at the U.N. General Assembly in New York back in 2015.
One matter that has come to be expected regarding media outlets critical of the current administration is that whenever Trump and Putin are part of any equation, be it a meeting or sharing of similar sentiments on any topic, such media outlets will often point to or platform pundits guilty of bloviating doom-monger theories of what’s motivating or at stake whenever Trump and Putin are in the mix of a topical matter.
The aforementioned media spin tactics aren’t lost on President Trump, who took to social media earlier in August after the hit pieces came flooding in on the impending meeting with Putin in Alaska.
On August 13th, President Trump wrote, “Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’”
The sitting president was clearly flabbergasted by the conclusion reached by Bolton regarding a meeting that has yet to come to fruition, adding, “What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught.”
According to President Trump, his ultimate goal in the upcoming summit with Putin is to arrange a cease fire, a promise the president made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as being his highest priority with this meeting.
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