MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace brutally panned President Donald Trump's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin after nothing appeared to be accomplished — claiming that Trump essentially let Putin steamroll the whole process and ensured it would fail.

The event, which saw Trump giving literal red-carpet treatment to the autocratic Russian ruler as he tried to negotiate a "peace deal" out of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ended with the two world leaders giving statements to the press, vaguely suggesting the outlines of a deal but giving no specifics, before walking off without taking any questions.

"I think the press conference underscored something that Ambassador McFaul and Ali Velshi and I've been talking about since 4 p.m. Eastern," said Wallace. "I mean, this was, for Trump, a television production that may have been rooted in different motives, but one of them was likely to change the topic of news coverage. It succeeded in that we've all been covering this all day, for better or for worse. But clearly Trump was not in control of anything."

"I mean, Putin was the alpha all day long, from Trump holding on his plane and waiting for him like a, you know, middle schooler waiting for their first date, the red carpet that rolled out and the choreography," she continued.

"I went to dozens of foreign trips with the president," Wallace continued. "It is very rare to have a red carpet and then an ascent to a platform, and then a walk down the stairs into a limo together. I won't say it's never happened, but it's exceedingly rare to the point that I can't think of it ever happening before."

The biggest tell that Putin was setting the agenda, Wallace added, is that reporters didn't get to ask anything at what was supposed to be a press conference.

"And then Donald Trump — you know, don't stand between Donald Trump and a scrum of reporters asking questions if you don't want to be stampeded, there's no way it was Donald Trump's decision or request to take no questions," she said. "He'd be talking until 9 p.m. Eastern if he'd been in control of anything that happened today."

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