Trump-Putin Alaska summit divides congressional lawmakers

While President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, reactions from lawmakers were flooded in Washington, including one Republican, who said he wanted to nominate the Nobel Peace Prize after the summit.

While the Republicans greatly praised Trump of firm position and his efforts to work for peace, the Democrats accused the president of being very friendly with Putin.

“I think President Trump is quite clear that Putin’s appearance against the wall and I think he showed this clarity with his first work before saying a word with the fact that he flew B-2 [Putin’s] “For him to fly the B-2 launcher at the head of Vladimir Putin, it was a sign that when President Trump says,” he is heened, there may be very severe consequences, “said Representative Brian Mast, R-FLA.

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However, while Mast expressed that he saw Trump challenging Putin, describing California’s Democratic Representative Eric Salwell as closer to “Trump’s elites[ing] Putin was also giving him a life -long achievement award. “

“What kissing the Kremlin- our president.”

Meanwhile, with the start of the meeting, Representative Eugene Fidman, D-VA. “The fact that Putin will be on the American soil is a great victory for him.”

First, legitimacy is done and not a global pariah. Second, it will be detention in 123 countries for the arrest order in the International Criminal Court. Here. Here. [sic] He walks for free, “is a shabby.

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“Trump called a dictator to the American soil only to obtain his rock,” the official X account of the Democratic Party added.

President Donald Trump is walking with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the airport runway after they arrived at an Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorag, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Rynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

But the Republicans gathered about the president’s treatment of the summit, with Representative Andy Oglaz, R-ENN, announced on Friday night after concluding the summit that he intends to formulate a nominal Nobel Peace Prize for Trump.

Some Republicans took the opportunity on Friday to close the previous Biden administration for its failure to take the necessary measures to stop the war in Ukraine.

“When Joe Biden became president, and waved the sanctions on Nord Stream 2, Putin and Russia gave a gift of billions of dollars, and the reason that caused the war was that Putin refrained from invading Ukraine on Friday in an interview with Fox News.

During the summit, while Putin was addressing the correspondents, he said he believed that the demand from Trump and the Republicans that Trump was president when the war began instead of Biden, it is likely that it would not start in the first place.

President Donald Trump, the oath, President Russia Vladimir Putin has arrived at an Emendorf-Richardson joint base conference on Friday, August 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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“The key to ending this war with honor and fairness is to create an infrastructure for the deterrence that Biden and Obama failed to do – which will prevent the third invasion,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C.

South South Carolina added that after the summit, it will be necessary to meet between Trump and Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zellinski. Senator argued that, with such a meeting, he would be “optimistic with” caution “that the war may end” before Christmas well. “

Graham concluded that “if this meeting fails to achieve it, I think President Trump may have to enter into the punishment of those who buy cheap Russian oil and gas, and support the war machine Putin.”