MSNBC host Antonia Hylton suggested that Karoline Leavitt looked ‘ashen’ and ‘terrified’ after witnessing the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin meeting in Alaska.
On Saturday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, Hylton discussed Friday’s summit with guest former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.
Hylton claimed that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 27, appeared to be scared of what she had seen ‘behind closed doors’ as she emerged from Trump’s meeting with the Russian president.
The journalist then hit out at Leavitt’s appearance, describing her skin as pale and gray after accompanying the president on the high-stakes summit.
‘A lot of the press corps that was there, they reported in the minutes and hours after the presser that they saw members of the administration, like Karoline Leavitt, look ashen, almost frightened after what they had seen behind closed doors,’ Hylton said.
‘What did that indicate to you?’ she asked McFaul – an Obama appointee.
‘We should all be glad that we did not go to Alaska,’ McFaul responded, adding that Leavitt’s appearance after the meeting ‘suggests to me that this was a bigger disaster than they’re leading on to.’
Hylton, 31, hosts the MSNBC show alongside Elize Jordan, Ayman Mohyeldin and Catherine Rampell. It airs on Saturdays and Sundays from 6pm to 9pm.
MSNBC host Antonia Hylton (pictured) suggested that Karoline Leavitt looked ‘ashen’ and ‘terrified’ after witnessing the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin meeting in Alaska
Hylton claimed that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (pictured on Friday in Alaska) appeared to be scared of what she had seen ‘behind closed doors’ as she emerged from Trump’s meeting with the Russian president
The co-hosts’ discussion came after Putin and Trump met on Friday in Alaska to discuss Russia’s war with Ukraine.
While Trump claims to have made ‘a lot of progress’ and said the summit was a ’10 out of 10,’ the meeting has been considered by many to have been a large failure for America.
Trump succumbed to Putin by adopting the Russian position that moves should concentrate on a final peace deal, which will likely take months or years, instead of a ceasefire.
The president also backed away from threats to impose tough new sanctions on Russia and expand secondary sanctions on countries that purchase oil from the nation.
Leavitt, pictured on Thursday, played cleanup for Trump last week after he said twice that he was preparing to go to Russia to visit Putin
Hylton was speaking to former Russian ambassador and Obama appointee Michael McFaul (pictured)
While Trump claims to have made ‘a lot of progress’ and said the summit was a ’10 out of 10,’ the meeting has been considered by many to have been a large failure for America (Pictured: Putin and Trump pose in Anchorage, Alaska)
Days before the summit, Leavitt played cleanup for Trump who falsely claimed twice that he was preparing to go to Russia to visit Putin.
‘Perhaps there are plans in the future to travel to Russia and on Friday the president will be meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska, as you know,’ she said during the White House press briefing on Monday.
Trump, however, specifically mentioned during his press conference that he would be traveling to Russia: ‘You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday,’ Trump said in what was widely assumed to be a verbal slip.
Then he did it again.
‘We’re going to Russia. That’s going to be a big deal,’ he said later in the press conference.
