{"id":232830,"date":"2025-10-18T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:08:07","slug":"trump-expresses-interest-in-us-russia-undersea-tunnel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232830\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump expresses interest in US-Russia undersea tunnel project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has expressed interest in an undersea tunnel connecting the American state of Alaska with Russia \u2013 a project floated earlier by a senior Russian official to billionaire <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/elon-musk?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>.\u201cA tunnel from Russia to Alaska. That\u2019s \u2026 interesting,\u201d Trump said on Friday, when asked about the idea by White House reporters during his meeting with Ukrainian counterpart <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/volodymyr-zelensky?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Indicating he had just heard about the potential cross-border project, he asked Zelensky: \u201cWhat do you think of that, Mr. President? &#8230; How do you like that idea?\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Ukrainian leader \u2013 who has been combating a full-scale Russian invasion for over three years \u2013 appeared less than thrilled.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019m not happy with this,\u201d he said, eliciting a laugh from his host.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to reporters across the street from the White House following his meeting with Trump on Friday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/18a194c7-83f4-4015-ae4f-379340378743_beb76697.jpg\" title=\"Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to reporters across the street from the White House following his meeting with Trump on Friday. Photo: AP\"\/>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to reporters across the street from the White House following his meeting with Trump on Friday. Photo: APRussian President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/vladimir-putin?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s international economy envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, brought up the idea on Thursday on the Musk-owned media platform X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has expressed interest in an undersea tunnel connecting the American state of Alaska with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3292,23,129506,49204,39642,11,129507,3,25244,1206,1019,129505,3479,129504,121087,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508,15285,3123],"class_list":["post-232830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alaska","tag-america","tag-bering-sea","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-cold-war","tag-elon-musk","tag-kirill-dmitriev","tag-news","tag-republican","tag-russia","tag-tesla","tag-the-boring-company","tag-trump","tag-tunnel","tag-ukrainian","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}