Aug. 11, 2025

Trump & Putin’s Alaska Summit, Truth Social’s AI Backfires, and the Epstein Files Distraction

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President Trump and Vladimir Putin plan an Alaska meeting to “end” the Ukraine war—without inviting Ukraine. Plus, Trump’s new AI chatbot calls January 6 an “insurrection” and fact-checks its own boss, and D.C.’s homeless get told to move “FAR from the Capital.”

None of that distracts us from the Epstein Files. Release them.

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Kalaroga Shark Media from Alaska, where we're trying to distract

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you from the Epstein files. This is that, Hey, Putin

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has a copy, maybe he'll release them. Let's hit this, Hi.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Trump and Putin are meeting in

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Alaska on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

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And apparently they picked Alaska because and I'm not making

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this up, it used to belong to Russia. Trump announced

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the summit after his own deadline passed. He'd given Putin

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until August eighth to agree to a cease fire or

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face more sanctions. When that deadline came and went, instead

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of imposing sanctions, Trump said, you know what, let's have

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a meeting instead. That's some serious art of the deal

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energy right there. The whole thing started because Trump promised

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as a candidate that he could end the Ukraine War

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in twenty four hours. We're now seven months into his presidency,

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three rounds of failed peace talks and one missed deadline later.

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But hey, who's counting. Here's what makes this especially awkward.

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Ukraine's not invited, at least not yet. Zelenski has made

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it pretty clear that any deal made without Ukraine would

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be what he calls dead decisions, which is diplomatics speak

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for are you kidding me? Right now? Trump's apparently floating

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the idea of swapping territories, which sounds very reasonable until

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you remember that one of those territories is someone else's country.

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The Russian presidential assistant said. Meeting in Alaska is quite

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logical because both countries are neighbors across the Bearing Strait. Sure,

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if you ignore the fact that there are two sovereign

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nations and several thousand miles between them. But Putin's delegation

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can just fly over to Alaska, which makes it sound

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like they're dropping by for a barbecue. Sure, Alaska is

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right next to Moscow, just eleven time zones away. It's

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not like it's as far away from Moscow as possible.

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That would be absurd. Trump took to truth social Sunday

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with what can only be described as his most ambitious

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urban planning proposal yet, telling homeless individuals in Washington, d C.

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To pack up and move out immediately. And by immediately

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he apparently means very fast, which in Trump time, could

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mean anywhere from tomorrow to the heat death of the universe.

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The President's post, complete with photos of roadside tents, declared

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there will be no mister nice guy, a phrase that

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suggests there was previously a mister nice guy version of

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Trump that we all somehow missed. Was that the guy

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who served McDonald's at the White House, because that might

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have been peak nice guy Trump right there. Trump promised

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to give homeless individuals places to stay, but clarified these

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would be far from the Capitol, presumably somewhere between Mars

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and his golf course in Bedminster. This comes as part

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of Trump's DC Safe and Beautiful Executive Order, which created

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a task force aimed at making the nation's capital more presentable.

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It's the governmental equivalent of your mom frantically cleaning the

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house before company arrives. Accept the company is foreign dignitaries,

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and the mess is human suffering. The President has long

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complained that DC is horribly run, which if you're asking

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me if someone in DC is running things horribly, well,

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I won't argue. So there's a gold mine in Idaho

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that wants to power its operation with a nuclear reactor

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you can ship in a container, And suddenly I'm thinking,

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maybe we've taken the whole portable power thing a little

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too far. The Golden chest mind, which sounds like something

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from a pirate movie, or even worse, something Trump might

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want to do on a date, wants to be the

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first to use these microreactors that are small enough to

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fit on a flatbed truck. We're talking about nuclear reactors

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the size of shipping containers that can generate enough power

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for a thousand homes, or, as one company put it,

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enough to power a remote island owned by a billionaire,

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which raises the question how many billionaire owned islands are

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there that we need to plan nuclear infrastructure around them.

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These mini reactors are nothing like the massive nuclear plants

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we're used to. No cooling towers, no concrete structures the

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size of sports stadiums. These use helium gas or molten

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salt for cooling and run on something called trisofuel uranium

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pellets the size of poppy seeds that the Energy Department

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claims are meltdown proof. They're essentially nuclear power for people

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who want to order it on Amazon Prime. But not

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everyone is thrilled about trucking nuclear reactors around the country.

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Ed Lyman from the Union of Concerned Scientists called the

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idea madness saying we'd be putting them in nooks and

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crannies in populated areas next to data centers and factories

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without any off site emergency planning, which does sound like

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the setup for a disaster movie coming this summer. Micro

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meltdown when small reactors cause big problems. My favorite detail.

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A billionaire apparently contacted one company asking if they could

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use a microreactor to power a completely self suff island

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with its own vertical farm and desalination plant. The company said,

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certainly possible, Great news for doctor No. So truth Social

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just launched their own AI chatbots, and apparently nobody told

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it the company talking points. This thing is supposed to

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be Trump's answer to biased big tech AI, but instead

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it's out there fact checking its own boss. The AI

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called truth Search AI, which is already a pretty bold

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name choice, keeps telling users that actually, the twenty twenty

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election wasn't stolen, tariffs are just a tax on Americans,

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and Barack Obama polls better than Trump. When asked about

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January sixth, it called it an insurrection linked to Trump's

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baseless claims. Now, I don't know what's funnier That they

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built an AI that disagrees with everything Trump says, or

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that they're apparently surprised by this. Trump spent years complaining

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about woke AI, signed an executive order demanding truth seeking

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artificial intelligence, and then his own company creates a chatbot

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that immediately starts seeking some very inconvenient truths. The AI

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is powered by perplexity, and when reporters ask them about it,

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they basically said, hey, we just make the technology. What

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truth social does with it is their business, which is

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the tech equivalent of selling someone a shovel and then

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acting shocked when they dig a hole. But here's my

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favorite part. When Trump posted that crime in Washington is

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totally out of control, his own AI responded by saying, actually,

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the FBI reports substantial declines in violent crime. It even

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italicized the word declines, which feels a little passive aggressive

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for artificial intelligence. So now Trump has to decide keep

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the AI that contradicts him, or admit that maybe reality

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has a liberal bias after all, or reassign it to

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write lame jokes for a podcast. That's what I would do.

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Release the Epstein files, you coward,