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President Donald Trump closed out his thirtieth week in workplace of his second time period with a high-stakes assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, in an try to finish the warfare between Russia and Ukraine.
The 2 didn’t attain a peace settlement, however Trump mentioned that the assembly was successful and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will go to the White Home in Washington Monday.
“It was decided by all that one of the simplest ways to finish the horrific warfare between Russia and Ukraine is to go on to a Peace Settlement, which might finish the warfare, and never a mere Ceasefire Settlement, which regularly instances don’t maintain up,” Trump mentioned in a Saturday put up on Reality Social.
President Donald Trump greets Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
If the assembly in Washington with Zelenskyy goes nicely, Trump mentioned {that a} trilateral assembly between the U.S., Russia and Ukraine shall be scheduled.
Trump described the assembly with Putin as “very heat,” and mentioned that he believed a deal was imminent.
“I can let you know, the assembly was a really heat assembly,” Trump instructed Fox Information host Sean Hannity in an unique interview. “You understand, he’s a powerful man, he’s robust as hell on all of that, however the assembly was a really heat assembly between two crucial nations, and it’s superb once they get alongside. I feel we’re fairly near a deal. Now look, Ukraine has to comply with it.”
Right here’s what additionally occurred this week:
Crime crackdown
On Monday, Trump introduced he would activate roughly 800 Nationwide Guard troops and would take over the Metropolitan Police Division to handle crime in Washington. The transfer got here after Trump already bolstered federal regulation enforcement presence within the nation’s capital Saturday.
“I am deploying the Nationwide Guard to assist reestablish regulation, order and public security in Washington, D.C.,” Trump instructed reporters at a Monday press convention. “And they’ll be allowed to do their job correctly.”
TRUMP TAKES CONTROL OF METRO POLICE, DEPLOYS NATIONAL GUARD TO TAKE ON WASHINGTON CRIME
Members of Drug Enforcement Administration patrol on M Avenue in Georgetown Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington,
Trump initially prompt federalizing Washington’s Metropolitan Police Division and dispatching Nationwide Guard troops to handle crime in Washington Aug. 6 in response to the assault of a former Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) staffer.
Though a short lived federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Division is warranted for emergency conditions, Washington officers filed a lawsuit difficult the Trump administration’s transfer Friday.
“By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its non permanent, restricted authority beneath the regulation,” Washington Legal professional Common Brian Schwalb wrote in a Friday X put up. “That is the gravest menace to Residence Rule DC has ever confronted, and we’re preventing to cease it.”
Smithsonian evaluate
The White Home despatched a letter to the Smithsonian Tuesday, asserting it might conduct a evaluate of its museums and displays main as much as the 250th birthday of the USA in 2025.
“We wish the museums to deal with our nation pretty,” Trump instructed reporters Thursday. “We wish their museums to speak in regards to the historical past of our nation in a good method, not in a woke method or in a racist method, which is what a lot of them, not all of them, however a lot of them are doing.”
“Our museums have an obligation to symbolize what occurred in our nation over time. Good and dangerous,” Trump mentioned. “However what occurred over time in an correct approach.”
AMERICAN HISTORY WON’T BE DISPLAYED ‘IN A WOKE MANNER’ AT SMITHSONIAN, TRUMP SAYS
The Smithsonian Establishment’s Nationwide Museum of American Historical past is seen from the Washington Monument on June 3, 2025, in Washington. (Kevin Carter/Getty Photos)
The White Home mentioned in a letter Tuesday the evaluate would contain analyzing social media, exhibition textual content and academic supplies to “assess tone, historic framing, and alignment with American beliefs.”
“This initiative goals to make sure alignment with the President’s directive to have fun American exceptionalism, take away divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural establishments,” the letter mentioned.
WHITE HOUSE REVIEWING ALL SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM, EXHIBIT CONTENT BEFORE AMERICA 250 CELEBRATION IN 2026
The Smithsonian instructed Fox Information Digital it might coordinate with the White Home, Congress and its governing Board of Regents on the matter.
“The Smithsonian’s work is grounded in a deep dedication to scholarly excellence, rigorous analysis and the correct, factual presentation of historical past,” the Smithsonian mentioned in a press release.
