Trump lands in Alaska ahead of high-stakes Putin summit
(The Hill) – President Trump landed in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday afternoon ahead of his highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — their first face-to-face interaction since the first Trump administration.
Trump said earlier Friday that he would not use the meeting as a platform to negotiate for Ukraine and threatened to “walk away” from the conversation if Putin is not willing to make a peace deal that the U.S. finds acceptable.
“I think it’s going to work out very well — and if it doesn’t, I’m going to head back home real fast,” he told Fox News’s Bret Baier aboard Air Force One.
The comments come days after the president sought to reassure European allies that he would not advocate for a land swap between Russia and Ukraine.
