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Donald Trump wanted to go bold -- a high-pomp, high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin to test whether the Russian leader would compromise on the Ukraine war.

In the end, it looks like it was Trump, not Putin, who budged.

Donald Trump’s saber-rattling, cajoling and tariff threats have proved to be ineffective bow that he has returned to Washington D.C. empty-handed after a failed summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

According to historian Anne Applebaum, the American president is suddenly finding he has no cards to play when it comes to influencing his Russian counterpart.

White House reporters covering President Donald Trump’s Alaska meeting Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin were left “wondering whether Trump was frustrated” as the president remained uncharacteristically silent throughout the event, one White House reporter said Saturday.

The summit, arranged to negotiate an end to the Russo-Ukraine War, included what was billed as a joint press conference with Trump and Putin, but according to The Hill reporter Brett Samuels, ended unusually.

Following President Donald Trump’s meeting and Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday, European leaders are growing disillusioned with the negotiations, telling The New York Times Saturday that they fear “Trump’s affinities with Russia and his admiration for Putin” will lead to weakened European security and Ukrainian sovereignty.

“That’s a defeat for the West,” said Ulrich Speck, a German foreign policy analyst, speaking with the New York Times Saturday. “It’s first and foremost Europe’s defeat.”

State Department documents containing details about the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine were left behind for anyone to see on a Alaska hotel printer, reports NPR.

The day after the summit concluded with little to no progress being made, NPR is reporting that the eight pages that were found “revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.”

Following Donald Trump’s unsuccessful summit with Vladimir Putin, longtime D.C. journalist Susan Glasser told an MSNBC panel that the U.S. president may rue one moment he shared with the Russian president that was caught on video and broadcast to the world.

Appearing on “The Weekend” with hosts Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Capehart on Saturday morning, Glasser was asked about Trump actually rolling out the red carpet for Putin on U.S. territory, which had been highly criticized beforehand, and she immediately pounced on that as damaging to the president.

Director Spike Lee railed against President Donald Trump Saturday over his plans to reshape Smithsonian museums as an attempt to “roll back the clock,” and argued the Trump administration had successfully erased the United States’ status as the “so-called beacon of democracy.”

Trump has ordered a “far-reaching review” of Smithsonian exhibits across the nation to ensure they fit his own “historical vision,” telling reporters this week that he wants museums to “talk about the history of our country in a fair manner, not in a woke or racist manner.”

The ability of former Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba to remain in her job as acting New Jersey U.S. attorney will face another hurdle next week when a federal judge will rule on arguments for and against the controversial appointee.

According to a report from Politico’s Matt Friedman, a skeptical Judge Matthew Brann, who sits on the bench in Pennsylvania’s Middle District, had Habba’s case drop in his lap and has announced he hopes to rule on Habba’s eligibility on Wednesday while admitting at the same time he expects whatever decision he makes will be appealed by the losing party.

Trump administration officials have touted new data they say shows employment among native-born Americans has surged; economists, however, argue the administration’s interpretation is tantamount to a “multiple-count data felony,” and that the numbers simply don’t add up.

Last week, President Donald Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after the agency published an abysmal jobs report, and in their stead, appointed E.J. Antoni to head the agency, who earlier this month touted numbers that allegedly show employment among native-born Americans were up two million over the past year, and employment among foreign-born workers fell by around 237,000.

In a post-mortem on Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, the former head of the Council on Foreign Relations expressed alarm that the U.S. president appeared to be “surprised” at the turn the talks took on ending the Ukraine war.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” diplomat Richard Hass claimed negotiations have a long way to go before reaching the “peace” Trump is now claiming is the next step.He then went on to note what he felt was alarming at how the U.S. entered into the diplomatic efforts.

As federal officers continue to swarm the streets of Washington, D.C. under President Donald Trump’s takeover over the nation’s Capitol, the commander in chief now faces a “30-day clock” that could end as either a political win, or a “political albatross” and liability, argued The Washington Post’s editorial board Friday evening.

Launched on Tuesday, Trump’s D.C. takeover saw well over 1,500 federal officers descend on the city’s streets alongside dozens of National Guard troops in an effort to tighten law enforcement, a move that sees Trump “benefit from the perception that he’s fighting a broken local government and activist judges as he tries to crack down on crime,” the editorial board wrote.

Since being sworn in as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has drawn plenty of criticism for her frequent photo-ops. Noem, critics say, is theatrical and performative in a way that Alejandro Mayorkas — who served as DHS secretary under former President Joe Biden — wasn't.

Now, Noem is, according to the Washington Post, drawing scrutiny for "living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard's top admiral."

President Donald Trump ducked and dodged Friday night when pressed by Fox News host Sean Hannity on details about what exactly happened in the room between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, at one point rambling about groceries, the border and Social Security.

Trump joined Hannity following a three-hour meeting behind closed doors with Putin, in which the men walked away unable to secure a deal to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine.