'What the f--- was that?' My nine hours at Trump's bewildering summit
After travelling 2,000 miles, enduring a three-hour security screening and arguing over seating arrangements with the Russian media, expectations were high for the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The early signs were positive – a warm handshake, a ride along in “The Beast” and the claim by Russia that talks could last “six or seven hours”.
But that feeling came to a screeching halt inside the press tent at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, when a press conference was called just three hours in – and it emerged that the wider bilateral talks had been scrapped.
The two leaders appeared on stage for just 12 minutes. There was no ceasefire and they did not take a single question.
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The first surprise of Mr Trump and Putin’s post-summit press conference was that the Russian leader was the first to speak.
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Some brave "brass" at the base didn't arrest both of them and ship them off to The Hague. That would have made the whole event worthwhile.
Since PEDOnald was involved, why would anyone other than a magat have high expectations? 
