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Fox News Spins Trump’s Failed Summit

August 16, 2025 at 11:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Status: “On Friday, Trump held his own high-stakes meeting with Putin, literally rolling out the red carpet and applauding the Russian dictator on U.S. soil. The talks ended with no deal, no concessions from Russia, and no plan to end the bloody war in Ukraine that Putin appears hellbent on waging.”

Following the meeting, Fox News’ senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich offered a blunt assessment: “It did not seem like things went well, and it seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say. And got his photo next to the president and then left.”

“And yet, for Fox News viewers who continued to watch the network afterward, you would have thought Trump had just signed the Camp David Accords, with Hannity and other pro-Trump mouthpieces spinning the president’s flop into a foreign policy triumph.”

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