After famously vowing to end the war within a single day, Trump is rolling the dice on a high-stakes face-to-face summit meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska that he hopes can

The president had announced the summit, which will take place in Alaska, in a Truth Social post Friday. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote.