Trump ends the week with a meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin

President Donald Trump closed his 30th week of operation of his second term with a raised challenge meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, in order to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

The two did not conclude a peace agreement, but Trump said that the meeting was a success and that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the White House in Washington on Monday.

“It was determined by all that the best way to put an end to the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war, and not to a simple cease-fire agreement, which would often not hold,” said Trump in an article on Saturday on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin, Friday August 15, 2025, at Elmendorf-Richardson, in Alaska. (Julia Demaoree Nikhinson)

If the meeting in Washington with Zelenskyy is going well, Trump said that a trilateral meeting between the United States, Russia and Ukraine would be planned.

Trump described the meeting with Putin as “very warm” and said he thought that an agreement was imminent.

“I can tell you that the meeting was a very warm meeting,” Trump told the host of Fox News Sean Hannity in a Exclusive maintenance. “You know, he’s a strong guy, he’s hard as hell on all of this, but the meeting was a very warm meeting between two very important countries, and it is very good when they get along. I think we are close enough to an agreement. Now look, Ukraine must accept it.”

Here is what also happened this week:

Repression crime

Trump announced on Monday that he would activate around 800 troops from the National Guard and take control of the Metropolitan Police Department to combat crime in Washington. This decision reached after Trump has already strengthened federal police on Saturday in the national capital on Saturday.

“I am deploying the National Guard to help restore the law, order and public security in Washington, DC,” Trump told journalists at a press conference on Monday. “And they will be allowed to do their job properly.”

Trump takes control of the metropolitan police, deploys the National Guard to face Washington Crime

The members of the Drug Encompement Administration are patrolling M Street to Georgetown on August 13, 2025, in Washington,

Trump initially suggested Federal Washington Metropolitan Police Service and sending the national guard troops to fight crime to Washington on August 6 in response to the assault of a former staff member of the Government Ministry (DOGE).

Although a temporary federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Service is justified for emergency situations, Washington officials have put a legal action contesting the move of the Trump administration on Friday.

“By illegally declaring an takeover of the MPD, the administration abuses its temporary authority and limited under the law,” wrote the prosecutor general of Washington, Brian Schwalb in a Friday X post. “This is the most serious threat to the rule of domicile that DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.”

Smithsonian Review

The White House sent a letter to the Smithsonian on Tuesday, announcing that it would examine its museums and exhibitions leading to the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2025.

“We want museums to treat our country fairly,” Trump told journalists on Thursday. “We want their museums to talk about the history of our country in a fair way, not in a awakened or racist way, which is that many of them, but not all, but many of them do.”

“Our museums have the obligation to represent what has happened in our country over the years. Good and bad,” said Trump. “But what happened over the years precisely.”

American history will not be displayed “in an awake” in Smithsonian, said Trump

The National Museum of American Smithsonian Institution is seen from the Washington Monument on June 3, 2025 in Washington. (Images Kevin Carter / Getty)

The White House declared Tuesday in a letter that the examination would involve examining social media, the text of the exhibition and the educational material to “assess the tone, the historic framing and the alignment with the American ideals”.

“This initiative aims to align with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, eliminate division or supporters’ accounts and restore confidence in our common cultural institutions,” said the letter.

White House Reviewing All Smithsonian Museum, Exposing content before America 250 Celebration in 2026

The Smithsonian told Fox News Digital that he would coordinate with the White House, the Congress and its board of directors of the regents in the matter.

“Smithsonian’s work is based on a deep commitment to learned excellence, rigorous research and the exact and factual presentation of history,” the Smithsonian said in a press release.