Fox News Pundits Hail Trump’s ‘Huge Win’ at Summit Where President Announced, ‘We Didn’t Get There’

Fox News contributors Kellyanne Conway and Jason Chaffetz said he was impressed by President Donald Trump at Friday’s meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two world leaders met in Anchorage to discuss a potential framework for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, whose president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited. Flanked by aides, Trump and Putin met for nearly three hours before emerging for a press conference that was anything but, as they did not take questions from the press. Trump told reporters, “We didn’t get there,” but said that “we have a very good chance of getting there.”

Oddly, Putin spoke first despite being on U.S. soil.

Assessments of the first meeting were mixed. Unurprisingly, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace panned Trump’s performance, stating that he “was not in control of anything” and that Putin was “the alpha.” Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, said Trump looked “very tired.” Notably, Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich stated that Putin “streamrolled” the president.

Those reviews were a far cry from the analyses offered on Fox News’s primetime shows. On The Ingraham Angle, Conway offered a glowing assessment.

“Look, everything came up Trump and the U.S. today,” she said. “Look at the setup behind them. It says ‘Pursuing Peace.’ Do you think Vladimir Putin wanted to stand in front of a banner on U.S. soil, a foot shorter than the U.S. president in front of words, saying ‘Pursuing Peace’? That’s the goal here.”

Conway concluded, “Donald Trump was not being his jovial self in this press conference. It was not emotional; it was transactional. And I think it’s because Putin knows Trump can crush Russia’s economy with primary sanctions like he’s done before, and these secondary sanctions for countries like India and China, who are buying Russian oil. I think it’s a huge win for peace today and a huge win for our president.”

Chaffetz echoed those sentiments.

“I think it’s a huge win for President Trump, for the United States,” he said. “There is but one superpower in this world. It’s the United States of America, both militarily and economically. You had the visuals on the military side. But both President Putin and President Trump talked about the economic strength.”

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