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https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump...

Yesterday Chiara Eisner of NPR reported that officials from the Trump administration left eight pages of information produced by the U.S. State Department in a public printer at the business center of an Alaskan hotel. The pages revealed potentially sensitive information about the August 15 meetings, including the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members and thirteen U.S. and Russian state leaders.

The pages also contained the information that Trump intended to give Putin an “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue,” and the menu for the cancelled lunch, which specified that the luncheon was “in honor of his excellency, Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation.”

Our negotiators are clearly amateurs, who it turned out had been played.

Jeff

The lunch was scheduled to be at the Hotel Captain Cook, which is the most elegant hotel in Anchorage. Which is not a very high bar, it must be said. One of the menu items was Halibut Olympia, which I had never heard of. Apparently, I was not alone. There was an article about it in today's NYT.


“It has the vibe of being homey and comforting and mildly retro, but palatable,” said Jeremy Pataky, an editor and co-publisher of Edible Alaska magazine. “I would not characterize it as haute cuisine. To see that on the menu for an extremely high-level state dinner felt a bit surprising.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/dining/trump-pu...

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