A meeting between U.S. and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place in Alaska on Friday, prompting several awkward moments and photos, and no deal for a ceasefire with Ukraine.
Kicking off Last Week Tonight with a roundup of the week’s biggest stories, John Oliver didn’t spend long on Trump and Putin’s meeting — but he did make his feelings about it pretty clear.
“Trump flew to Alaska to talk to Putin about Ukraine for less than three hours, after which they held a press conference which went so badly even this Fox News reporter couldn’t put a positive spin on it,” said Oliver, before playing a clip of a Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich describing “the way it felt in the room” as “not good”.
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“Yeah not great, and while the White House later released this black-and-white photo of Trump looking tough while talking to Putin, it does seem that the vibe was more accurately summed up by this AP photo of Putin looking confident, and Trump looking like that room temperature shrimp is coming back up,” Oliver said.
For more of John Oliver on the president, you can watch his thoughts on Trump and Epstein, Trump’s “big beautiful bill”, and Trump’s tariffs.
