'I'm going to Russia on Friday': Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin amid DC crime
Source: The Independent
Monday 11 August 2025 20:02 BST
President Donald Trump appeared to mix up Russia with Alaska ahead of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a White House press conference about crime in Washington, DC and his plans to deploy the National Guard and put the citys police under his control.
Trump delivered the news from the podium in the press briefing room joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and newly confirmed DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro where he decried the level of crime in Washington, DC.
This is a tragic emergency, and its embarrassing for me to be up here, Trump told reporters. You know, Im going to see Putin. Im going to Russia on Friday. I dont like being up here, talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once-beautiful capital [is].
Trump is not going to Russia, but rather to Alaska to meet with Putin. He is set to meet with the Russian president to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine that Russia initiated when it invaded the sovereign nation in February 2022.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-alaska-press-conference-b2805570.html
The media needs to reiterate the cognitive decline gaffes that continue to happen.

usonian
(20,482 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:02 AM - Edit history (1)
He plans to trade Alaska to Russia in return for a set of Matryoshka dolls.
To impress little girls. (1)
Or certain incriminating videos.
(1). Do you want to see my magic wand?
SeattleVet
(5,735 posts)Wouldn't put it past him, as he wanders around in his dotage.
LiberalArkie
(18,931 posts)Or trade Ukraine for Alaska?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,099 posts)I wouldn't even think of him being that stupid except he doesn't know what Pearl Harbor is about.
Can he even find Alaska on a map??
Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)They are living 30 years in the past...
DFW
(58,927 posts)Sewards folly was in 1867.
bdamomma
(69,027 posts)your question probably not.
quakerboy
(14,542 posts)Take Canada, give Russia Alaska, and then he and his friend can just walk across the border to have tea parties and do a one sided wife swap.
EYESORE 9001
(29,038 posts)The orange menace is probably mulling over giving Alaska back to Russia as part of a deal to end war in Ukraine. Only half-joking.
slightlv
(6,557 posts)He'll give Alaska to Russia, for their help in getting Greenland for himself. The idiot is such a freaking embarrassment; I'm so ashamed of my country.
bdamomma
(69,027 posts)And everyone else in the world.

Pachamama
(17,463 posts)It was a Freudian slip - he knows what his plan is and he jumped ahead
samsingh
(18,162 posts)2na fisherman
(90 posts)"...you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska..."
Or does Trump really think Alaska is part of Russia and he is going to Russia?
John1956PA
(4,457 posts)2na fisherman
(90 posts)the words she actually spoke, "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." It's not the Tina Fey parody quote.
John1956PA
(4,457 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,704 posts)Given how lax the Trump regime has been on security, and Mar-a-Lago too, there must be a fair chance Russia has got it.
BaronChocula
(3,324 posts)Because a good question would have been "You said you were going to meet Putin in Russia. Did you mean Alaska or are you actually going to Russia?"
That would have prompted an incorrect correction from Pedo the Great and here's how that exchange should have gone.
"No, Alaska. I said Alaska."
"You said you were going to Russia to meet Putin."
"I said Alaska and I see what you're doing and it's very nasty. You're very nasty to lie like that."
"This is on video, sir. You said you were going to Russia. Are you going to Russia or Alaska?"
"You're very nasty and incompetent. I know you and you're the worst. So incompetent."
"Are you going to Russia or Alaska."
"So nasty. So incompetent."
Grokenstein
(6,141 posts)"There's so much fake news, so unfair to me, your favorite President, so I'm putting the troops in to make sure their reporting is accurate and they aren't doing DEI. Also, the girls reading the news are gonna be a LOT cuter and younger and sexier and younger and nobody's gonna ever bring up Epstein again if they know what's good for them."
BaronChocula
(3,324 posts)bdamomma
(69,027 posts)the Press Corp would follow up with questions like that instead of falling down on their jobs.
Delmette2.0
(4,427 posts)Could he actually running away to Russia?
The truth is about to come out. It is so bad he will be impeached, tried in civil court and imprisoned for the rest of his life.
Ok, maybe I'm dreaming. Give an old lady a break.
BaronChocula
(3,324 posts)
Aussie105
(7,203 posts)Trump to Putin: "OK, I give you Alaska if you pull out of Ukraine. I really need that Nobel peace prize . . . what you say, Vlad buddy?"
Seriously, if I wrote a movie script where America is being turned into a copy of North Korean society, a mad King runs the show, and shady deals are done behind the curtains out of view of the American public, well . . . it would be rejected and I'd be asked what drugs I'm on!
Yet here we are.
Sneederbunk
(16,734 posts)John1956PA
(4,457 posts)Orrex
(66,020 posts)niyad
(127,214 posts)was on fire!
Justice matters.
(8,867 posts)@grok Trump would likely say: "Sleepy Joe thinks Alaska is Russia! Total disaster, doesn't even know our own country. Unfit, low IQ--SAD!"
cstanleytech
(27,940 posts)raccoon
(32,020 posts)I guess I don't need to add JK?
I wish he'd go to Russia and not come back.
travelingthrulife
(3,243 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(169,765 posts)bdamomma
(69,027 posts)behind him will have their day too. Stupid both of them.
mcar
(45,310 posts)If Biden had said it, it'd be front page news.
kerouac2
(1,276 posts)Every day is worse than the next and we're just months into this mess.
DallasNE
(7,871 posts)Some background.
A couple of days ago a Russian, speaking about Alaska, said you know, this land was once part of Russia and followed up by saying we call Alaska "Russian America".
So, was he really misspeaking? We can't know until after Friday.
FakeNoose
(38,628 posts)I'm thinking of the Diomedes Islands, and maybe there are others.
There's nothing there, no hotels or touristy places so I doubt Chump would ever want to go there. But theoretically he could meet with Putin on one of those islands (or on a yacht between the two) and he'd only be a few miles from Russia.
2na fisherman
(90 posts)Trump has to report to his boss for further instructions and a reminder that if he disobeys, the Epstein krompromat will be released. Maybe a deal can be made to make Maxwell have a fatal accident in exchange for total US abandonment of Ukraine.
Too much of a James Bond plot? Well, espionage is Putin's main occupation. And the CIA, NSA and Five Eyes must be all over this affair but will never reveal details of it to protect sources and methods. Perhaps we can hope to learn of these things many years from now under a future expose called, The Secret History of the Trump Regime, or some similar title.