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11:38 18.08.2025 •
Guests at a hotel in Alaska found eight pages of documents from President Donald Trump’s meetings Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a printer, NPR reported Saturday.
The documents show the schedule of the summit with times and locations. They also show the lunch menu, the lunch seating chart, and the phone numbers of three of Trump administration staffers. The documents were found in a printer at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel in Anchorage that is near the military base where the summit took place.
The documents show which officials were involved in the summit. A “2:2” meeting took place among Trump; Steve Witkoff, special envoy for peace missions; Putin; and Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin for foreign policy and Putin’s “America guru.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were also involved, among others.
The documents show that Trump planned to give Putin an “American bald eagle desk statue.”
The discovery of the documents “strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration,” Jon Michaels, a professor of law at UCLA, told NPR. “You just don’t leave things in printers. It’s that simple.”
The lunch, which did not end up happening, was to be held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.” The seating chart shows assigned spots for 13 officials, with Americans on one side and Russians on the other. Meeting organizers planned to serve filet mignon, halibut Olympia, and crème brûlée.
The White House and the State Department did not respond to NPR’s questions about the documents.
Through this meeting, Putin has “broken out of international isolation” and “wasn’t in the least challenged” by Trump, Laurie Bristow, a former British ambassador to Russia, told the Associated Press.
“They spent three years telling everyone Russia was isolated, and today they saw the beautiful red carpet laid out for the Russian president in the U.S.,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told Axios.
Government documents detailing Donald Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin were discovered by guests at an Alaskan hotel, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports.
Eight pages of official government papers were left behind on printers at the four-star Hotel Captain Cook on Friday. The hotel is located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
Precise details of the day's schedule were contained in the papers, as well as phone numbers of three US officials and pronunciation guides for the names of Russian attendees.
The drama comes amid the appearance of Trump's rarely-seen aide Monica Crowley who was yesterday seen in pictures warmly shaking hands with the grinning Russian leader.
As Chief of Protocol for the United States – an obscure officer of the State Department – Crowley is responsible for diplomatic etiquette and events.
She was in charge of creating a detailed itinerary for Putin's visit, including the vital meeting between the two countries to discuss a potential ceasefire in Ukraine.
President Trump met with Putin in Anchorage Friday to discuss a peace proposal, though few details were disclosed about the pair's meeting.
But papers found at the Hotel Captain Cook around 9am Friday revealed exactly what rooms the Russian and US leaders convened in at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
Page one of the pack showed that Trump and Putin met near the 'American Bald Eagle Desk Statue' at the base, NPR reports.
Three pages in the document included names of US and Kremlin officials, including phonetic pronunciation for all the Russians expected to attend the summit.
The sixth and seventh pages in the document stated that a luncheon would be held in 'honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin'.
It featured the expected menu of green salad with a champagne vinaigrette dressing for the starter and a main of filet mignon or halibut, with potatoes and asparagus on the side. Guests would be served creme brûlée for dessert.
The included seating chart placed Trump across from Putin. Trump would also be sat with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff.
Putin was meant to be sat with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and his Foreign Policy advisor Yuri Ushakov.
But it is understood that the luncheon was cancelled.
Phone numbers of three US government employees where listed on page, along with the start of the meeting participants list.
It is unclear who left behind the documents, but political analysts warn the mishap demonstrates 'sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration'.
'You just don't leave things in printers. It's that simple,' UCLA law professor and national security expert Jon Michaels told the news outlet.
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