Russia mocks UK as Donald Trump hangs Putin photograph – ‘Not worth considering’
Russia has taken a swipe at the UK and Europe after Donald Trump hung a picture of himself and Vladimir Putin on the wall of the White House, above a photo of Trump’s granddaughter
The pair appeared together at a meeting in Anchorage(Image: The White House.)
A Russian lawmaker has mocked the UK and other European countries after Donald Trump hung a picture of himself and Vladimir Putin in the White House.
Trump hung the picture, taken of the pair at their summit in Alaska last August, in a vestibule area of the presidential home connecting the West Wing to the residence. The picture was placed above another snap, of Trump and his granddaughter, Carolina Trump, at the Daytona International Speedway racetrack in Florida.
The move caused Mark Warner, a Democratic senator from Virginia and the highest-ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, to speak out, saying: “Putting Putin above the American people and his own family. Almost a little too on the nose.”
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But in Russia the move has been received more favourably. In an interview with state-owned Gazeta.Ru website, Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlev said: “Relations are at least respectful, otherwise in his office, Trump definitely would not have posted a joint photo.”
Zhuravlev, who is first Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on defence, added: “Incidentally, note that there are no images of any European leaders in the White House, nor of Zelensky—the US, apparently, doesn’t consider them worth considering.”
The jibe at Kier Starmer and other leaders comes after a period of strained relations between EU leaders and President Trump over the US president’s stated ambition to “acquire” Greenland.
Zhuravlev said Trump hung the picture because “he really wanted to be like the Russian president” as a “famous collector of lands”. However, Zhuravlev added: “So far he has not managed to add anything to the United States.”
Putin’s crony added: “In addition, the situation inside the country is very shaky – unlike Russia, where the absolute majority of the population quite sincerely supports its national leader.”
The meeting between Putin and Trump in Anchorage, immortalised in Trump’s new framed picture, is seen as a pivotal point in Russia’s war with Ukraine by Putin and his underlings. It was the first time the Russian leader had visited a western nation since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a moment so important that the Kremlin announced this week that the summit would appear in an updated version of school history textbooks.
Outspoken Zhuravlev also made headlines yesterday after commenting on a news story about Russia using the new hypersonic, nuclear capable Oreshnik missiles in strikes on Ukraine’s Lviv region. He said: “The Kremlin has clearly demonstrated that new hypersonic weapons are capable of unimpededly striking targets in Western capitals and at alliance military bases. For Kyiv’s ‘allies,’ this means only one thing: they are effectively defenceless against Moscow’s new technologies”.
