Putin, Trump and Alaska
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James Garrett Hermansen is facing a felony criminal mischief charge accusing him of painting an anti-Trump message on the Government Hill gate on Friday, according to court documents.
"We don't appreciate authoritarian dictators being invited to our state," said protest organizers Stand Up Alaska.
Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet Friday. The high-stakes summit —
Following President Donald Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, locals gathered on Friday to send a message to world leaders: “don’t abandon Ukraine.”
It only makes sense that we’ve met here, because our countries though separated by the ocean are close neighbors,” Putin said in Anchorage.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.
Over 300 hundred protests were held Saturday against President Trump’s redistricting plan in Texas.