Trump rails against ‘unfair' media quoting ‘fired losers' ahead of high-stakes meeting with Putin
3 President Trump took aim at the media's coverage of his high-stakes meeting with Putin Wednesday.
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'Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil,' Trump seethed on Truth Social Wednesday.
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''Putin has already won.' What's that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they've been caught,' he added.
Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg in 1991.
Trump's anticipated meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with Putin will mark the first time the Russian leader sets foot on US soil in about a decade.
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3 Trump slammed the media for quoting 'fired losers' and singled out 'really dumb' John Bolton.
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3 President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg, Germany.
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It will also be Putin's first in-person meeting with a US president since he began the brutal invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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