When HuffPost reached out to the Trump administration to inquire about who had picked Budapest as the location for the summit, officials handed out unconventional replies.
“Your mom did,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. White House communications director Steven Cheung gave the same response, saying, “Your mom,” according to the outlet.
Reactions on X to the incident varied widely across party lines. Conservatives hailed the president’s team for trolling the left-wing outlet. “Congratulations to HuffPost for eliciting the most legendary response from the White House,” one user wrote. “I’m sorry, but that’s hilarious,” another added.
Liberals found Leavitt and Cheung’s responses less funny. “A coordinated strategy of adolescents,” wrote one. “Totally on brand for this White House,” another said.
Exact details about the Trump-Putin Budapest summit remain unclear. However, Trump sounded optimistic about the meeting this week, which he announced following a lengthy phone call with Putin.
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The president said “great progress” was made during the call about the Ukraine war, which sparked in 2022 and has threatened to trigger wider conflict with NATO.
During a meeting at the White House the following day with Putin’s arch nemesis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump declined to give Kyiv long-range missiles it had requested for use against Russia. This suggests that there remains a significant chance to make peace without further escalating the war.
“The war in the Middle East was far more complicated. We got that one done,” Trump said, referencing his recent work to broker peace in Gaza. “I think we have a good chance.”
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