You know, this may be difficult for people to understand, especially in the mainstream media, but I am happy, happy that there appears to be some kind of rational realignment between this great president and the truth and what's going on because this summit in Alaska, they're still trying to figure out what happened.
Still trying to figure out why the seeming 180.
But the summit in Alaska may not have produced a signed deal as of yet.
But it did produce something I think that many people will consider to be far more relevant and consequential and important and critical and that is to expose the collapse and the end of old Western tropes and narratives.
It showed, I think, the world that the story Washington and Brussels and others have been selling for years that Russia is this pariah, this evil dark, you know, the evil empire that Putin is some kind of a rogue outlaw of Ukraine is the last stand, the bastion of democracy.
This is over.
It's done.
So let's look at what actually happened and what I think historians will be saying.
The meeting opened very interesting.
Remember the, it was almost the pageantry of it.
Remember the two enormous, you know, aircraft rolling onto the tarmac, meeting, you know, in succession, you know, the pageantry, the president stepping out at exactly the same moment, you know.
They approached each other.
It was beautiful, the stagecraft.
It was perfect.
There was, and people have read into this too much about who stopped first, who looked at whom first.
And Trump, it appears, stopped, some people are suggesting, and let Putin kind of, you know, make up the difference or cut up or catch up with them.
And the world is looking for some kind of a peaceful and a spirited denouement.
Now, at that moment, it felt to many people like we were just watching something.
something that the world was watching, that they were sitting around and looking for this moment, this incredible moment, the handshake, just a hint that maybe this nonsense was over.
And let me tell you something, that handshake was huge.
Huge.
Hundreds of reporters packed under this Elmendorf Richardson Joint Air Force Base.
They expected some kind of fireworks or slapping each other.
They thought they'd hear about, I don't know, breakthroughs and ceasefires and whatever but instead it was something different it was some people might say it was anticlimactic some people whatever it was really what some people called a summit where nothing was accomplished where the deal was really a no deal what it wasn't it wasn't really we're not really sure what happened after hours behind closed doors Trump and
Putin emerged before the cameras with this one announcement, no deal yet.
It might be kind of like a black smoke or something to go back to that papal analogy.
You know, no expand, let's continue working.
No, no joint declaration.
Putin left to lay flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots from the Second World War, and he boarded the planes.
That was it.
So what the hell was that all about?
And they're still trying to figure this out.
I mean, remember, much of this has already been determined ahead of time.
It didn't just happen then.
Now for Trump, the peace process, what he's trying to do, is about optics.
He wants an image.
He wants a tough guy, strong image.
I mean, who does it?
The photo up with Putin and Zelensky shaking hands.
It was almost like, it reminds me of like Camp David, you know, the old days of people trying to bring Jimmy Carter did it, Clinton did it.
He wants to, he wants to credit.
He wants to focus.
He wants to be the man in history who forced peace where others failed.
He, he said this.
He said this.
He was talking about how, remember, He said, in 24 hours, I could bring a deal.
Trump, things are a deal.
It's a real estate deal.
It's a construction deal.
I mean, after all, you know, Trump's worked with theoretically organized crime.
crimes are pretty tough characters, this should be a piece of cake.
Remember his triumph with Azerbaijan and Armenia?
Remember that one?
That's good.
That's good.
Donald Trump loves the two for, you know, the repeat, the three peat, but this time he wanted something that would be his legacy.
Forge, I mean, who does it?
I'm not telling you anything you don't know.
And for Trump and Russia and Moscow, well, this wasn't theater.
This was business.
And the Kremlin has no interest in kind of this symbolic, you know, shambolic, symbolic nonsense.
It doesn't want cheap pageantry and theater.
The Russian delegation knew that it was not going to be posing for the cameras.
That wasn't the goal, but to shift the direction, to shift the focus.
For Putin, substance comes first, optics later.
And it is incredible.
The real obstacle, any handshake between Putin and Zelensky isn't at the table as an equal.
That, I mean, that's got to be tough.
He's the subject of the negotiation.
He's the subject matter.
But he's not the author, he's not the director, he's not a grand participant.
You know, whatever's going to be decided ultimately between Trump and Putin, Ozel will have to just take it and swallow it.
That's why he's got all his European folks today to basically make the case because they realize this is over.
See, that's the problem.
This is all about nothing to do with him.
And I am praying.
this president sees what he should have seen years ago.
Think about this.
Trump has always wanted two things.
At least he said that.
One was a ceasefire.
And let's get this out of the way.
The ceasefire means time to regroup, time to sit back, time to sit there and say, I got plenty of time now to take a breather.
I mean, who during a match, who during a boxing match, when you're clabbering your opponent, wants your opponent to sit back, have some water, hit the stool, relax, take some time up, and then we'll pick it up later when you're feeling refreshed.
It doesn't work like that.
Trump wanted this, Trump wanted to show because he's great at domestic stuff, great at borders, great at tariffs, great at economics, and he is.
But Trump, this was his chance to say, I am, I'm Nixon, I'm, I'm in many respects Reagan.
Putin wanted that, but only on Russian terms.
And his terms are simple.
I've said this a million times.
Ukraine must leave Donbass, period.
Among others, no NATO, no.
You want to have a neutral.
You want the four oblasts and Crimea.
You've heard me say this to the point.
I'm sounding like a parrot.
I'm saying it over again.
By the way, the reason why I do sound like a parrot is he's been saying this since day one for years.
Now, people are suggesting, and there's all these leaks.
Everybody's leaks.
Everybody knows what's going on.
They're suggesting now that Russia made progress, that Trump now seems open maybe to seeing whether he can basically put the arm on Ukraine and Europe, I don't know, to accept his conditions.
If so.
So that's incredible.
That means that Russia won okay and Trump has to do not only to bring upon some peace but to make sure he says I'm the winner that I'm the deal maker maker I'm the I'm the negotiator in chief so let's ask the question why doesn't Trump just say look that's it just just say the hell with it which is what I've been saying Say, look, you're on your own.
And that's what it seems like.
He was basically throwing it to Zell and saying, you know what, you're on your own.
I'm here if you need me.
I'll be over here.
But I've had enough of this.
I've got other things to worry about.
I've got Epsteins and local stuff and taxes and I've got California and I've got I've got I've got domestic problems.
I'm the United States president, not the leader of the world despite that wonderful little moniker.
He would love to, but he can't.
He inherited this mess from Biden.
Biden turned the White House into this war machine.
And Trump, despite all of his smart, I think he knows now, he basically was, he inherited that for him all of a sudden to to switch course, to change course, to change direction, oh my God, that would take effort.
But to pressure Putin would also take effort and guts that I don't know if he has.
To pressure Europe, this is something.
Even just to leave, it's harder than you think.
Because this was a mess.
He should have said from the beginning, I am not inheriting this.
He listened to people because I think as much as I love this man and I love this man, he wants to be tough.
He wants to be tough.
This is the most important thing in the world.
Let me just explain this to you.
You have to understand that when I talk to the American people versus people in the rest of the world, I talk to a different audience.
America doesn't understand any of this.
It doesn't understand what an oblast is from a hole in the ground.
It doesn't understand.
I live, I'm still from a generation that looks at Russia always as negative, negative, dirty, filthy, scary, angry.
Russia from the days, believe it or not.
Of Boris and Natasha from Drago, I will destroy you.
The evil empire.
This is all we've ever known.
And when America gets on something, that's it.
Like they think terrorism.
Trump has got to, if he wants to come clean with this, sit down and explain to people.
Let me tell you the crap that I inherited.
Now granted, The American public could say, why'd you tell us now?
Why didn't you mention this before?
What took you so long?
okay, maybe that's it.
But I'm going to say something as a, and I love this man, when you've got Lutnik and Witkoff, Marco Rubio, nowhere to be found arguing, not arguing, but negotiating with Lavrov.
Did you see that Russian team?
They are serious.
It's a different world.
You've got Monica Crowley leaving things in the, I mean, when I saw a picture of Pam Bondi Pete Hegseth and the usual suspect.
I mean, bless their hearts.
But I thought, oh no.
No, no, no, no.
This is something that we and they really cannot understand.
They cannot possibly possibly grasp.
They've never been...
you know, God bless Whitcoff, he does a good job, but you just...
Remember, Putin came in, what, 2000?
The mindset of the Russians, the idea, look, you may...
They're afraid of the double cross they've seen what propinquity does when the wrong hand from Napoleon to to Hitler to World War II to to their own revolution to their own to the fall of the Soviet Union not only that to NATO to containment they this Putin said, That's over with.
There's one thing about Putin.
If he says something, he's not kidding.
He doesn't say something to negotiate it.
He doesn't say like, okay, I'm going to tell him that we want Donbass, that we want the Fort Oblast, that we want Crimea.
Wanted?
He said, no, they're ours.
Martha Radis, or maybe she says, Putin doesn't even make a concession.
Concession for what?
What is he supposed to do?
He said, you're threatening me.
What's my concession?
You know, sometimes you got to realize that when somebody takes innocent people hostages, the cops say, okay, look, I'll make a deal with you.
Let these people go and we'll talk.
But even the bad guy, even the hostage taker knows.
I don't really have a lot of room here.
How could Putin, you know, you know that they've spoken, I think, before or between before this happened.
Oh, and before I forget, imagine what Gomer Pyle's going to say.
Lindsey Graham, oh my God, you've heard this.
America talks such crap.
Do you hear what Hexus was talking about China?
How he's going to bury China?
Can you imagine somebody telling us this?
They think they're on Fox News.
I swear to God, they live in a world of Fox News.
Fox News is not a reality.
It's a cable news program with people who don't know what they're talking about, with all due respect.
So let me just say something to this president, I'm proud of you.
It takes more guts, more wherewithal, and a better dealmaker to realize this is nuts to back up and back off than to pursue this nonsense.
History will be very kind to you.
Remember when Reagan., after the Lebanon barracks, remember when the Marines were hit?
He said, we're getting the hell out of there.
It was the wisest thing in the world.
Nobody looked at Reagan and said, what are you?
You backing off?
You're, no.
They said, you're smart.
And that's exactly what this is.
My friend, what do you think?
Put your thoughts in comments.
I'm very proud of this president.
I like him.
I really do.
I like him more.
If, if, if he does not, the second, do not give in to Europe.
And one more thing, remember one thing, it takes nothing for some idiot, for some idiot to pull a false flag or some agent provocateur move, and to do something, to do something which could very well lead to some nuclear skirmish.
It doesn't have to be Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but some small, some low yield, tactical nuclear weapon, one of those Davy Crockett recoilers, you know, whatever the version of this is.
Just for you to read the headline., nuclear bomb.
Oh my God.
So, Mr. President, do what's right.
We're all behind you.
Now, what do you think, dear friends?
What's your take?
What is your take?
What do you think old Lindsey Graham, what's Gomer Pyle going to say about this?
Says I am Sergeant Carter.
Now we can talk about Israel, which is another story, which we'll get to at another time.