Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused President Donald Trump of “selling out” Ukraine after Trump did not announce an agreement to end the war following his major meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Looks like once again Trump is selling out Ukraine and bowing down to dictator Putin,” Schumer wrote Saturday on X, formerly Twitter. “No Nobel Peace Prize for that.”
Trump said he and Putin made “great progress” during the summit in Anchorage, Alaska Friday, in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t invited, despite not reaching a deal on the ongoing war.
In an interview Friday night on Fox News, Trump said that now it is “really up to President Zelenskyy to get it done,” adding, “we have a pretty good chance of getting it done.” Trump and Zelensky are expected to meet on Monday at the Oval Office.
Schumer’s pointed social media post came after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton floated the idea of nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize should he successfully broker a ceasefire agreement with Putin.
Trump quipped over Clinton’s remarks, telling Fox News’ Bret Baier, “That was very nice. I might have to start liking her again.”
Meanwhile Trump has had numerous allies offer nominations, and his aides have been publicly campaigning for him to receive the award, citing examples of global peace deals and agreements the White House said Trump has helped negotiate that should earn him the honor.
Last month, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the president has “brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office. It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
In a separate X post Friday, Schumer slammed “authoritarian thug” Putin while accusing Trump of “rolling out the red carpet” for the world leader.
“Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for authoritarian thug Vladimir Putin. Instead of standing with Ukraine and our allies, Trump stood shoulder to shoulder with an autocrat that has terrorized the Ukrainian people and the globe for years,” he wrote.
Schumer went on to call the pair’s meeting “just theater.”
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“While we wait for critical details of what was discussed—on first take it appears Trump handed Putin legitimacy, a global stage, zero accountability, and got nothing in return,” he added. “Our fear is that this wasn’t diplomacy—it was just theater.”