This wasn’t just a security breach, documents obtained by NPR from a hotel guest who found them on a printer revealed something even more disturbing: a planned luncheon in honor of Vladimir Putin. The menu literally read, “In honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
It gets worse. Trump intended to present Putin with a ceremonial gift, an American Bald Eagle Desk Statue engraved, “POTUS to President Putin.”
A bald eagle (the very symbol of American freedom and strength) hand-delivered to a dictator who’s waging war in Ukraine, jailing dissidents, and working to dismantle Western alliances? That’s not routine diplomacy. That’s tone-deaf at best, or intentional messaging at worst.
And doing all this during a private lunch framed as a tribute to “his excellency Vladimir Putin”? That’s not how America treats adversaries.
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