{"id":109804,"date":"2025-08-31T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109804\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:21:07","slug":"john-oliver-shares-his-blunt-verdict-on-trumps-meeting-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109804\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver shares his blunt verdict on Trump&#8217;s meeting with Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting between U.S. and Russian presidents <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Vladimir Putin took place in Alaska on Friday, prompting several awkward moments and photos, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gj9er0x0zo\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">no deal for a ceasefire<\/a> with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off Last Week Tonight with a roundup of the week&#8217;s biggest stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/john-oliver\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Oliver<\/a> didn&#8217;t spend long on Trump and Putin&#8217;s meeting \u2014 but he did make his feelings about it pretty clear.<\/p>\n<p>        SEE ALSO:<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/john-oliver-trump-epstein-last-week-tonight\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            John Oliver gives a brutal summary of the Trump\/Epstein scandal<\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump flew to Alaska to talk to Putin about Ukraine for less than three hours, after which they held a press conference which went so badly even this Fox News reporter couldn&#8217;t put a positive spin on it,&#8221; said Oliver, before playing a clip of a Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich describing &#8220;the way it felt in the room&#8221; as &#8220;not good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Top Stories\n        <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah not great, and while the White House later released <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1956528898776133858\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow\">this black-and-white photo<\/a> of Trump looking tough while talking to Putin, it does seem that the vibe was more accurately summed up by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sirDukeDevin\/status\/1956751090940100718\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow\">this AP photo<\/a> of Putin looking confident, and Trump looking like that room temperature shrimp is coming back up,&#8221; Oliver said.<\/p>\n<p>For more of John Oliver on the president, you can watch his thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/john-oliver-trump-epstein-last-week-tonight\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump and Epstein<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/john-oliver-trump-big-beautiful-bill\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big beautiful bill&#8221;<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/john-oliver-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump&#8217;s tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meeting between U.S. and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place in Alaska on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-109804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}