‘President POO-tihn’: Leaked Trump-Putin Docs Include Wacky Crib Notes on Russian Names

Zachary Leeman Aug 16th, 2025, 3:30 pm

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Documents with State Department markings found in an Anchorage hotel following President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin included a handy guide on how to properly pronounce Putin and others Russian officials’ names.

NPR first broke the story Saturday on the left-behind documents, which were apparently sitting on a desktop printer at a hotel business center.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly called the find a “multi-page lunch menu” and said the documents contained no sensitive information that would amount to a security breach.

One of the odder details from the eight

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