White House removes Trump’s applause for Putin from video
As seen during the live broadcast, Donald Trump applauded Vladimir Putin several times when the two leaders met on a red carpet at the US air base, where they are now holding a private meeting with their top foreign policy advisers.
The Kremlin Press Office quickly shared a photo of the US president applauding his “Russian opponent.”
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The fact that the US president applauded the Russian president and convicted war criminal prompted Russian-born Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko to post a surprised emoji on X. “I argued in my book that Russians want to be recognized by the US more than anything,” he added. “There we have it. Here it is.”
Trump’s three rounds of applause were captured on a live stream on the White House’s YouTube channel. But minutes later, when the White House posted video of the salute on social media, the clip was edited to start moments after Trump’s third round of applause for Putin ended.
The video, posted to the official White House accounts on Instagram and X, shows Trump’s left arm still moving alongside his body as the clip begins.
A look at the original broadcast shows that his arm had just fallen to his side at that point, after he had risen in front of the president to applaud the Russian leader, convicted by the International Criminal Court for the abduction of Ukrainian children.
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