Two dictators met in Alaska yesterday. The spymaster ruling Russia refused to stop murdering Ukrainians. The senile golf cheat making America a Russian vassal state turned to his favorite camera and started babbling the election conspiracy lies his KGB master feeds him:
“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now” [staff, “Trump Says Putin Agrees with Him US Should Not Have Mail-In Voting,” Reuters, 2025.08.15].
If we could take either man at his word, we would have to logically conclude that Trump encouraged dishonest elections when he encouraged his supporters to vote by mail last year and when he himself voted by mail on multiple occasions.
We don’t know whether Putin digressed from Ukraine to trash-talk American elections (which are conducted with far more integrity than Russia’s) at yesterday’s failed summit or whether Trump is merely misremembering the agitprop Putin fed him last year:
“In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting … they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that’s it,” Putin said, without providing evidence [staff, “Putin Says Past U.S. Elections Were Rigged,” Reuters, 2024.01.16].
And the second half of Trump’s quote is a flat lie. While most countries do not use mail-in voting, 12 countries allow all voters to mail in their ballots, and 22 more grant the privilege to some voters.
It’s ridiculous that the American President would come away from a summit that failed to bring us any closer to an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rehash election fraud lies peddled by the Russian leader. A responsible and courageous American leader would have immediately—on stage, at the bogus press conference, to Putin’s face—called out the Russian war criminal‘s bullshit justifications for an unjustifiable war. Instead, the tired old man that we elected king immediately praises Putin and repeats his lies.
Trump thus continues to humiliate and degrade our once great nation.
Related Reading: Read Foreign Policy’s full transcript of closing remarks from the Anchorage debacle, with the English translation of Putin’s cunning diversionary speech (a mix of blaming Ukraine and stroking Trump’s ego, which Trump immediately called “profound”), followed by Trump’s typical winged and empty ramble.