{"id":313605,"date":"2025-10-18T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:26:21","slug":"white-house-fires-off-childish-insults-over-trumps-putin-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313605\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Fires Off Childish Insults Over Trump\u2019s Putin Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House responded to requests for information about Trump\u2019s upcoming summit with Putin<\/a> in Budapest in typical fashion\u2014with a string of childish insults.<\/p>\n

Trump announced plans to meet with Putin over the next few weeks, with talks set to be held in the same city where Russia once signed an agreement<\/a> promising it would never invade Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One expert from the Washington, D.C.-based Center for a New American Security said few people would consider Budapest neutral.<\/p>\n

But when asked who chose to hold the meeting in Budapest, a location with great historical significance to both Russia and Ukraine, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt simply told HuffPost<\/a>, \u201cYour mom did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her playground-level response was echoed by White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who also responded to the query with a curt, \u201cYour mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s announcement came during a press conference on Thursday evening, ahead of a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump (L) greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Oct. 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Chen Mengtong\/China News Service via Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna be meeting in Hungary, Viktor Orban is going to be hosting, and it\u2019s going to be really something,\u201d Trump said of the summit, which will be the first time he and Putin will have met face-to-face since peace talks in Alaska back in August failed to produce any meaningful results.<\/p>\n

When asked whether the president is aware of the significance of Budapest in terms of Russia-Ukraine relations, analyst Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security told HuffPost, \u201cI\u2019m sure Trump doesn\u2019t know and doesn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump likes Orban and probably thinks he\u2019s doing him a solid,\u201d he added. \u201cAlso, Putin is an Orban friend. Most of the world would not consider Budapest neutral ground for such a meeting, but I guess Trump and Putin do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"USHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n (L) will host a summit between Trump (R) and Putin in Budapest, Hungary. Evan Vucci\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n, a right-wing autocrat, has borrowed heavily from both Trump and Putin\u2019s playbooks to dismantle much of Hungary\u2019s democracy. <\/p>\n

Since the start of the war, Orb\u00e1n has used his position to delay military aid to Ukraine and act as a prominent pro-Russian voice in European politics.<\/p>\n

In April, Hungary voted to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, meaning they are no longer required to uphold the arrest warrant issued for Putin in 2023 over his abduction of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n

Although the exact agenda of the meeting is not yet known, the catalyst appears to be the U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, which would allow Kyiv to strike targets deep within Russia on an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n

In a press briefing, Putin\u2019s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, said the Russian president had directly raised the matter of providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine with Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cVladimir Putin reiterated his point that Tomahawks would not change the situation on the battlefield but would cause significant harm to relations between our countries, not to mention the prospects for peaceful settlement,\u201d Ushakov told reporters at the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Zelensky, meanwhile, taunted the Russians, writing on Telegram<\/a> that \u201cWe can already see that Moscow is rushing to resume dialogue as soon as it hears about Tomahawks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PresidentThe meeting in Budapest will be Trump and Putin\u2019s first since the August summit in Alaska. Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the press briefing, Trump once again expressed confusion that Zelensky has a poor relationship with Putin, who has repeatedly announced intentions to annex and ethnically cleanse all of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we have a problem. They don\u2019t get along too well, those two,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cThis is a\u2014this is a terrible relationship the two of them have, and it\u2019s one of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Signed in 1994, the Budapest Memorandum bound the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia to respect Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and provide it with security assurances, contingent upon its dismantling of the vast nuclear arsenal it inherited after the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Russia first violated the agreement when it annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, and again when it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House responded to requests for information about Trump\u2019s upcoming summit with Putin in Budapest in typical…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[77,2850,50,273,67,132,68,16815,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-313605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-donald-j-trump","10":"tag-hungary","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-viktor-orban","17":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115395637136372041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313605","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=313605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}