White House Tempers Expectations Ahead of Trump-Putin Alaska Summit

The press secretary cast Trump as a uniquely committed peacemaker.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt/File Photo. / Reuters

US President Donald Trump will travel to Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug.15 for a rare face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — but the White House is playing down expectations of an immediate breakthrough to end the war in Ukraine.

“This is a listening exercise for the president,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. “Only one party that’s involved in this war is going to be present. And so this is for the president to go and to get, again, a more firm and better understanding of how we can hopefully bring this war to an end.”

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