People have been criticizing President Donald Trump online because he seemed to make a mistake when he said where he was meeting Vladimir Putin.
Trump caused some confusion when he claimed by mistake that he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia on Friday.
The conference that everyone has been looking forward to will really take place in Alaska, not Russia.
I’m traveling to Russia on Friday to see Putin. “During the press conference outlining his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., Trump said, “I don’t like being up here talking about how unsafe and unclean and ugly this once-beautiful capital was.”
The surprising message rapidly went viral online, with many responding right away.
On X (formerly Twitter), a person made the joke, “Wait, did he already give Alaska back to Putin?” There was also the statement, “He already gave Alaska to Russia.”
Others soon began to wonder whether the location of the summit had been altered or whether Alaska had been formally ceded to Russia by the United States.
The two leaders’ meeting is expected to be the first time a U.S. president and a Russian president have talked to each other directly since the Geneva summit between President Joe Biden and Putin in 2021.
The meeting would also happen after U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff visited Moscow and talked about the potential of a trilateral meeting that would include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The former president may have been embarrassed by the mix-up about the location, but it didn’t take away from his harsh comments about the crime rate in Washington, D.C., which the Mirror claims he has been vehemently denouncing recently.
Trump wrote a lot of pieces on his Truth Social site recently that created a dark picture of crime in Washington, D.C., which he says has gotten out of hand.
He said that the violence was getting worse because of young people in the area and gang members, some of them were just 14, 15, or 16 years old. These attacks and shootings of innocent people were random.
Trump also spoke bad things about the justice system, saying that these young criminals are rarely punished.
They don’t fear the police because they know nothing will happen to them, but now it will! Trump said that the legislation in D.C. has to be changed so that juveniles are treated like adults in criminal trials.
Trump also talked about how he wanted to bring Washington, D.C. back to its former splendor. He called it unsafe, unclean, and disgusting, and promised to make it safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, most importantly, for the world to see.
He also said that if the city doesn’t act right away, he would think about making it a federal city to make the reforms that need to be made. Trump said that if D.C. doesn’t get its act together quickly, we will have to seize Federal control of the City.