U.S. President Donald Trump reported on Truth Social on Aug. 15 that he had called Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko in the hours before the Alaska summit with Putin: “I had a wonderful talk with the highly respected President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko. The purpose of the call was to thank him for the release of 16 prisoners. We are also discussing the release of 1,300 additional prisoners. Our conversation was a very good one. We discussed many topics, including President Putin’s visit to Alaska. I look forward to meeting President Lukashenko in the future. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Western media, already apoplectic over President Trump’s summit with President Vladimir Putin went wild that Trump should call the Belarus President “ a “respectable leader,” after all the money and manpower spent by the NATO-Project Democracy apparatus to pillory Lukashenko as a “dictator,” “authoritarian,” “Putin-loving” pariah!