Following Donald Trump’s unsuccessful summit with Vladimir Putin, longtime D.C. journalist Susan Glasser told an MSNBC panel that the U.S. president may rue one moment he shared with the Russian president that was caught on video and broadcast to the world.


Appearing on “The Weekend” with hosts Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Capehart on Saturday morning, Glasser was asked about Trump actually rolling out the red carpet for Putin on U.S. territory, which had been highly criticized beforehand, and she immediately pounced on that as damaging to the president.

She then took it a step further by pointing to Trump’s response as Putin made his way to him across the tarmac.

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“You know, I thought even by Trump's standards, to welcome the accused war criminal and sanctioned Vladimir Putin to the United States for the first time in a decade. well, that's bad enough,” Glasser began. “But you can see, okay, Trump can justify that in terms of, you know, the larger goal of peace. But when I saw from the get-go that Trump was going to welcome him, not only with the full red carpet, literally applauding, literally applauding Vladimir Putin.”


“You know, I could be wrong, but this is probably going to be the indelible image of the summit, you know, five years from now,” she suggested. “It may not have any larger historical resonance depending on what happens later with Ukraine, but we're always going to remember that Donald Trump clapped for Vladimir Putin as the first greeting between the two men since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine.”


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