The Trump-Putin Alaska summit divides Congress legislators

Friday, President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the reactions of the legislators in Washington, DC, flooded, who said a republican who said he wanted the president to be appointed for a Nobel Peace Prize after the summit.

While the Republicans largely praised Trump for an assertive posture and for his efforts working towards peace, the Democrats accused the president of being too friendly with Putin.

“President Trump, I think, is simply clear that Putin’s back is against the wall and I think he has demonstrated this clarity with his very first action before saying a word with the fact that he piloted B-2 bombers on the head (from Putin),” said representative Brian Mast, R-Fla. “It was not by accident, of course. For him to pilot a B-2 bomber on Vladimir Putin’s head, it was a signal when President Trump says:” Hey, there could be very serious consequences. “”

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At the start of the summit, when President Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Tarmac at the base of the Air Force Elmendorf in Alaska, a cohort of military fighter aircraft, including a B-2 stealthy bomber, stolen over the head. (Reuters)

However, while Mast expressed that he had seen Trump question Putin, the California Democratic representative Eric Swalwell, described the summit as “Trump Toast (ING) Putin as if he had given him the price of success for life”.

“What Kremlin kisses one – our president is,” added Swalwell.

Meanwhile, when the meeting dismantled, the representative Eugene Vindman, D-VA., Said: “The very fact that Putin will be on American soil is a huge victory for him.”

“First, it is legitimized and not a world pariah. Secondly, it would be subject to arrest in 123 countries due to its ICC arrest warrant. Here (sic) walks freely,” deplored Vindman.

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“Trump invited a dictator on American soil just to shake his S ***,” added the official X -on the Democratic account.

President Donald Trump shakes the hand of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Tarmac after their arrival at the Elmendorf-Richardson joint base in Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

But the Republicans rallied around management by the President of the Summit, with representative Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Announcing Friday evening after the summit concluded that he intended to write a nomination of the Nobel Prize prize for Trump.

Some Republicans took the opportunity on Friday to slam the former Biden administration for omitting the necessary measures to stop the war in Ukraine.

“When Joe Biden became president, he signaled to the sanctions of Nord Stream 2, he offered Putin and Russia a gift of several billion dollars, and the reason which caused war is because Putin had refrained from invading Ukraine because he did not want to damage the natural gas pipelines that were headed by Ukraine,” said Sen. Texas, the republican Texas Cruz, in an interview on Fox News.

During the summit, while Putin addressed journalists, he said he believed that Trump’s claim and the Republicans who had been president of Trump when the war started in Biden’s place, it would probably never have started.

President Donald Trump, on the right, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday August 15, 2025. (Ap photo / Jae C. Hong)

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“The key to ending this war honorably and precisely is to create a deterrent infrastructure that Biden and Obama have not made – which will prevent a third invasion,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.c.

Southern Carolina Senator added that after the summit, a meeting between Trump, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be necessary. The senator argued that with such a meeting, it would be “prudently optimistic” that war could end “long before Christmas”.

“If this meeting does not materialize, I think that President Trump may have to do everything to punish those who buy cheap Russian oil and gas, supporting the Putin war machine,” concluded Graham.