NBC News chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander said he would not forget the “face” of President Donald Trump's team at the summit of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Alexander told MSNBC host Jen Psaki in an Anchorage report on Friday that sentiment in the Trump camp emerged after the two leaders held a closed talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. The highly discerning meeting failed to secure a ceasefire.
“Jen, especially Jen, looks really here,” Alexander said.
“Levitt seems to be a little stressed – sensitive – their eyes are sometimes wide and almost ashes,” he continued. “Some kind of image in those images… when we get out of here, I'll stick with it.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gathered at a joint press conference between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after a three-hour meeting of leaders. Jenna Moon/Reuters
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Alexander pointed out that “working behind closed doors with Putin” seems that Trump “has not separated from anything he wants.”
On Saturday, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Obama-appointed Michael McFaul, said Trump administration members left the meeting staggeredly, “This is a bigger disaster than they allow.”
The Alaska summit was considered a failure as a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine failed to achieve. Contributor/Getty Images
Trump himself admitted on the joint press after a three-hour meeting with Putin that the United States and Russia “have not got there” on the peace agreement he has been pushing.
Putin (the person allowed to speak on the press first) is the need to address what he calls his “main root cause” of his full-scale attack on Ukraine.
Alexander said: “What surprised me [Trump] Let his guest Vladimir Putin speak first. He also noted that the summit did not include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, ending more than an hour earlier than the White House planned.
Peter Alexander, chief White House correspondent, said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt “seemed to be stressed – anxious – their eyes wide and almost ashes, sometimes behind the top of Anchorage, Alaska. MSNBC
“Even by the standards they set, things suddenly ended,” he told Psaki, who served as White House press secretary under former President Joe Biden.
Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, where he accepted what Alexander called a “red carpet photo op” and a ride in President Trump’s limousine in Alaska.
The 72-year-old Russian dictator has no new sanctions on his country in his country, although Trump has threatened for months before raising it. Trump's long-standing ceasefire agreement has not been achieved.
“The final bottom line is that, in fact, Vladimir Putin got here here, a pariah on the world stage, and he could go home, trying to say he is now a partner with the largest superpower in the United States.
Trump, 79, started Sunday, an angry social post in truth, complaining about negative reports around the summit.
“It's incredible how fake news violently twists the truth when it comes to me,” Trump said. “What I have nothing to say or do will lead them to honestly write or report me. I had a pleasant meeting in Alaska about Biden's stupid war that will never happen!!!”