'I'm going to Russia on Friday': Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin amid DC crime

[BumRushDaShow]

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 city’s 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 it’s embarrassing for me to be up here,” Trump told reporters. “You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday. I don’t 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

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The media needs to reiterate the cognitive decline gaffes that continue to happen.

[usonian]

1. It's a "tell"

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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]

2. Maybe he's just letting it slip that he's planning on giving Alaska back?

Wouldn't put it past him, as he wanders around in his dotage.

[LiberalArkie]

3. In exchange for the Russian blackmail video that Epstein has?

Or trade Ukraine for Alaska?

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Sounds as if he doesn't know we bought Alaska from Russia.

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]

21. People with dementia often talk as if

They are living 30 years in the past...

[DFW]

23. Alaska as part of Russia is more like 160 years in the past

“Seward’s folly” was in 1867.

[bdamomma]

27. to answer

your question probably not.

[quakerboy]

14. I mean.. it makes sense

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]

4. Freudian slip

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]

5. I keep saying he's going to make a deal with Russia.

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]

28. this comment

I'm so ashamed of my country.

And everyone else in the world.

[Pachamama]

33. I believe this too

It was a Freudian slip - he knows what his plan is and he jumped ahead

[samsingh]

6. maybe he's planning on giving Alaska back to them

[2na fisherman]

7. Trump must remember the Sarah Palin quote

"...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]

18. Not that I care for Palin, but that was Tina Fey lampooning Palin.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sarah-palin-russia-house/

[2na fisherman]

37. Snopes Palin quote

the words she actually spoke, "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." It's not the Tina Fey parody quote.

[John1956PA]

38. You are correct. I was wrong to respond to your accurate reply post.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Maybe he's worried Putin has Epstein information he can hold over him

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]

9. Were questions allowed?

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]

11. Careful, he'll send his Nationalist Guardstapo to take over the news studios.

"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]

20. Spot on n/t

[bdamomma]

29. I wish

the Press Corp would follow up with questions like that instead of falling down on their jobs.

[Delmette2.0]

34. Maybe 47 let a bit of truth slip out.

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]

36. I'll be here vibing with you

[Aussie105]

10. I can see it now . . .

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]

13. No wonder Palin said she could see Russia from her porch.

[John1956PA]

19. A popular false attribution. It was Tina Fey who said that.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sarah-palin-russia-house/

[Orrex]

15. I hope he drinks tea near an open window

[niyad]

16. I first heard about this on the "Anna From Ukraine" podcast today. She

was on fire!

[Justice matters.]

17. xAI mocked the pedofelon today:

https://freeimage.host/i/FZ2mbTX

"Hey, @Grok, if Biden had confused Alaska with Russia twice (like Trump did today), what would Trump likely say? Short answer."

@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]

22. Or he's preparing to betray the people in Alaska.

[raccoon]

24. The MSM is run by people who have seances to summon Joseph Goebbels for his input.

I guess I don't need to add JK?

I wish he'd go to Russia and not come back.

[travelingthrulife]

25. Does he not have to provide any proof for his ridiculous 'emergencies'?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Where is the coverage of his cognitive decline?

Link to tweet

[bdamomma]

30. those loyalists

behind him will have their day too. Stupid both of them.

[mcar]

31. Did US media even mention this?

If Biden had said it, it'd be front page news.

[kerouac2]

32. But if Biden said that... Oh nevermind...

Every day is worse than the next and we're just months into this mess.

[DallasNE]

35. Did Trump Mispeak Or Let The Cat Out Of The Bag

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]

39. There are a few islands in Alaska that are very close to Russia

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]

40. Agent Krasnov meets his handler

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.