In an Alaskan hotel, U.S. officials left a set of eight pages outlining the details of a Trump‑Putin summit, NPR reports. The White House dismisses the incident.
Documents Found at Alaskan Hotel
According to NPR, the Captain Cook hotel—located roughly 20 minutes from the Anchorage military base—found eight pages of documents that were likely prepared by members of the former Donald Trump administration. The papers were supposedly left in a hotel printer, where they were accidentally discovered by hotel guests on Friday morning.
Trump‑Putin Summit: Documents Left in Printer
The initial page of the documents revealed the order of meetings scheduled for August 15, including specific room names at the Anchorage base. It also disclosed that Trump intended to present Putin with a ceremonial gift—a statue of an American bald eagle.
Pages two through five listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. officials and the names of 13 American and Russian politicians, complete with phonetic pronunciations for all Russian men expected at the summit.
Later pages detailed the lunch menu—highlighting beef tenderloin and halibut—and stipulated seating arrangements, with Putin and Trump to sit opposite each other; however, the lunch was ultimately canceled.
White House Response
“It’s funny that NPR publishes a multi‑page lunch menu and calls it a security breach,” White House Press Secretary Anna Kelly said to NewsNation. “This kind of self‑proclaimed investigative journalism is why no one takes them seriously, and president Trump no longer receives tax‑funded support,” she added.