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MSNBC host Antonia Hylton has suggested that President Donald Trump’s aides, particularly Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, may have been “frightened” by what they had witnessed during the president’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On Saturday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, Hylton spoke to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul—an Obama appointee—about Trump’s summit with Putin in Anchorage on Friday.

“A lot of the press corps that was there, they reported in the minutes and hours after the presser that they saw members of the administration, like Karoline Leavitt, look ashen, almost frightened after what they had seen behind closed doors. What did that indicate to you?” Hylton asked McFaul.

McFaul responded, “We should all be glad that we did not go to Alaska, because I was in Helsinki with you. And I was in Geneva when President Biden met. They traveled a long way for nothing in return, those journalists.”

He continued, ”But that suggests to me that this was a bigger disaster than they’re letting on. To your point, they’re trying to spin it, although they’re not even trying to spin it. That’s a really interesting thing.”

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Tax the Billionaires

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Trump won't give up on this because Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize.

Still, I doubt he will get one for giving away Ukrainian territory, or supporting Netanyahu's decimation of Palestine. And he certainly won't if he develops Palestine into a Middle East Riviera for everyone but Palestinians.

This summer, President Donald Trump is rolling out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin and approving of weapon sales to Israel as it commits genocide. He’s also squeezing in time to lobby aggressively for the Nobel Peace Prize.

NBC News reports that “Trump and his aides are intensifying a public campaign to snag the award, citing a string of peace deals while making a case that snubbing him again would be an injustice.” According to NBC News, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said, unprompted, at three out of her four press briefings in July that Trump deserves the prize. In fact, she’s arguing it’s overdue: “It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” she said at one presser. Trump has also “posted about the prize a total of seven times on his social media site since his second term began, six of them in June and July,” NBC News reports.

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Aug. 18 (UPI) -- On the eve of a highly anticipated White House meeting on ending Russia's war in Ukraine with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven other European leaders, President Donald Trump on Sunday night declared that Kyiv would not be regaining Moscow-annexed Crimea, nor would it be allowed to join NATO.

Trump is to meet with the leaders Monday after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

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Updated 7:21 AM MST, August 18, 2025

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats say they are ending a two-week walkout that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts to satisfy President Donald Trump’s demands for a greater GOP advantage.

Democratic leaders say they will return for a second special legislative session after seeing California Democratic leaders proceed with plans to redraw their own U.S. House maps to neutralize Republican gains in Texas.

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Trump looks reserved when he is with Putin. How very different than when the tried to browbeat Zelensky.

Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich on Trump-Putin press conference: “It did not seem like things went well. … Putin came in and steam rolled”

Heinrich: “The way that it felt in the room was not good”

From the August 15, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

JACQUI HEINRICH (CORRESPONDENT): A lot of questions remaining for the president, Trump, not just about what was discussed in that room and what might be happening now, but also how that all happened back there. It was just very unusual, atypical and I think we're all awaiting, you know, the read out because the way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left.

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Donald Trump promised a lot of things would be resolved on the very first day of his second presidential term – such as the war in Ukraine, which the US president is meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss – and now, new government statistics have completely undermined a pledge on the prices of goods.

As a reminder, back in August last year, Trump said during a press conference in which he was surrounded by groceries: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down.”

Talking specifically about food, he pointed to items behind him and said: “I don’t like the tags very much. Look at that, up 46 per cent, eggs. Wow. Up 65 per cent – school lunch is up 65 per cent.

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According to a new YouGov/The Economist poll, even his own supporters are willing to believe that he knew what Epstein was up to.

Respondents to the survey were asked “Before investigations into Jeffrey Epstein began, how much do you think Donald Trump knew about sex crimes committed by Epstein against underage girls?”

A total of 71 percent responded that Trump knew “some” or “a lot” about Epstein’s crimes, including a stunning 56 percent of Trump voters.

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The account emerged the day after Trump and Putin met at an airforce base in Alaska.

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia would relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine and Kyiv would cede swathes of its eastern land which Moscow has been unable to capture, under peace proposals discussed by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at their Alaska summit, sources briefed on Moscow’s thinking said.

The account emerged the day after Trump and Putin met at an airforce base in Alaska, the first encounter between a U.S. president and the Kremlin chief since before the start of the Ukraine conflict.

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RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz are trying to encourage Americans to walk more often — to save the country money. In a video that many critics called “staged,” Dr. Oz said walking 15 minutes a day would “save the country $100 billion in health expenses.” Of course, the duo mentioned some health benefits of walking as well. And while some people had no issue with the overall message, they couldn’t get over how cringe-worthy the video was.

“What in f’in PowerPoint presentation is this cringe bs,” one person wrote in response to the hiking video shared by RFK Jr. on X. Meanwhile, someone else said, “Not sure what’s weirder the staged hike for the cameras or wearing jeans while hiking … f—ing weirdos.”

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz went for a hike in Colorado Springs.

As they walked around the Garden of the Gods park, the two men spoke about the benefits of regular physical activity. “I try to hike every day because it improves my focus, my clarity, my creativity,” RFK Jr., who is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said. “It also gives me sunlight. Sunlight is medicine.”

He also addressed the mental health benefits of walking, and added that going for a walk is even better when you go with a friend. “Move a muscle, change a thought,” RFK Jr. said. “If you want to change a bad mood, if you want to get out of your loneliness, this trap of loneliness, go out for a walk. And better yet, when I go out for a walk, I always try to take a friend.”

At the end of the video, they started climbing — in jeans.

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Trump thrives on chaos. He knows that the more chaos he and his MAGA allies create, the more pessimistic Americans feel about the capacities of our democratic institutions to govern the nation. It's all part of their plan to advance an authoritarian agenda where Trump serves as a strongman. Don’t fall for it.

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Some compared Alaska to the Munich appeasement:

Former P.M. Boris Johnson of Britain, once considered the Trump of London, called the Alaska summit meeting “just about the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy.” - Trip Gabriel

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He has invented a false spike of crime to do so; federal law only allows these actions in an "emergency". Official statistics show that DC crime is at a 30-year low.

UPDATE: Trump is also planning to abduct the city's homeless population and move them somewhere else (away from any support structures they may have had). It is not clear where they will be released at this time.