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A self-styled peacemaker and dealmaker, it appears Trump will leave Alaska with neitherpublished at 00:27 British Summer Time 16 August<\/p>\nA self-styled peacemaker and dealmaker, it appears Trump will leave Alaska with neitherpublished at 00:27 British Summer Time 16 August<\/p>\n
00:27 BST 16 August<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no deal until there\u2019s a deal,\u201d Donald Trump said early in his post-summit remarks here in Anchorage.<\/p>\n It was a roundabout way of conceding that after several hours of talks, there is no deal. No ceasefire. Nothing tangible to report.<\/p>\n The president said that he and Vladimir Putin made \u201csome great progress\u201d – but with few details about what that might be, it\u2019s left to the world\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t get there,\u201d he later said, before exiting the room without taking any questions from the hundreds of gathered reporters.<\/p>\n Trump travelled a long way to produce only vagaries, even if America\u2019s European allies and Ukrainian officials may be relieved he did not offer unilateral concessions or agreements that could have undermined future negotiations.<\/p>\n For the man who likes to tout himself as a peacemaker and a dealmaker, it appears that Trump will leave Alaska with neither. There are also no indications that a future summit involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is forthcoming – Putin\u2019s \u201cnext time in Moscow\u201d quip about their next meeting aside.<\/p>\n While Trump had less at stake during these negotiations than Ukraine or Russia, it still will put a dent in his domestic and international prestige after earlier promises that this meeting had only a 25% chance of failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A self-styled peacemaker and dealmaker, it appears Trump will leave Alaska with neitherpublished at 00:27 British Summer Time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[210,1182,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115035879799225747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8025c513-814f-4824-a231-6907106001a4.jpg.webp.webp\")
Anthony Zurcher<\/strong>
North America correspondent, in Anchorage<\/p>\n