President Donald Trump, proper, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press convention at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Papers with U.S. State Division markings, discovered Friday morning within the enterprise middle of an Alaskan lodge, revealed beforehand undisclosed and probably delicate particulars concerning the Aug. 15 conferences between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pagesthat seem to have been produced by U.S. workers and left behind by accident, shared exact areas and assembly occasions of the summit and telephone numbers of U.S. authorities workers.
At round 9 a.m. on Friday, three friends at Resort Captain Cook dinner, a four-star lodge positioned 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage the place leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, discovered the paperwork left behind in one of many lodge’s public printers. NPR reviewed images of the paperwork taken by one of many friends, who NPR agreed to not determine as a result of the visitor stated they feared retaliation.
The White Home and the U.S. Division of State didn’t reply to requests for remark concerning the paperwork.
Photos of two paperwork concerning the Trump-Putin assembly in Alaska that have been present in a public lodge printer in Anchorage.
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The primary web page within the printed packet disclosed the sequence of conferences for August 15, together with the precise names of the rooms inside the bottom in Anchorage the place they’d happen. It additionally revealed that Trump supposed to offer Putin a ceremonial current.
“POTUS to President Putin,” the doc states, “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”
Pages 2 by 5 listed the names and telephone numbers of three U.S. workers members in addition to the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The checklist included phonetic pronouncers for all of the Russian males anticipated on the summit, together with “Mr. President POO-tihn.”
Pages 6 and seven within the packet described how lunch on the summit can be served, and for whom. A menu included within the paperwork indicated that the luncheon was to be held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
A seating chart reveals that Putin and Trump have been supposed to take a seat throughout from one another through the luncheon. Trump can be flanked by six officers: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth and White Home Chief of Employees Susie Wiles to his proper, and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Particular Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff to his left. Putin can be seated instantly subsequent to his Minister of International Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and his Aide to the President for International Coverage, Yuri Ushakov.
In the course of the summit Friday, lunch was apparently cancelled. Nevertheless it was supposed to be a easy, three-course meal, the paperwork confirmed. After a inexperienced salad, the world leaders would select between both filet mignon or halibut olympia. Crème brûlée can be served for dessert.
Jon Michaels, a professor of legislation at UCLA who lectures about nationwide safety, stated that the paperwork discovered within the printer of the Alaskan lodge reveal a lapse in skilled judgement in preparation for a high-stakes assembly.
“It strikes me as additional proof of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration,” stated Michaels. “You simply do not go away issues in printers. It is that easy.”
The printed papers are the most recent instance of a sequence of safety breaches by officers of the Trump administration. Earlier this week, members of a legislation enforcement group chat that included members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added a random particular person to a dialog about an ongoing seek for a convicted tried assassin. In March, U.S. nationwide safety leaders by accident included a journalist in a group chat about impending army strikes in Yemen.
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