Trump's 'Rogue' Envoy (Steve Witkoff) Blamed for His Endless Humiliations by Putin [View all]
Source: The Daily Beast
Trump’s ‘Rogue’ Envoy Blamed for His Endless Humiliations by Putin
Tom Sanders
Fri, August 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM EDT
4 min read
Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is being blamed for the failure of the president’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, with colleagues becoming increasingly frustrated with his unprofessionalism.
“He’s kind of a rogue actor,” a senior White House staffer told Politico. “He talks to all these people, but no one knows what he says in any of these meetings. He will say things publicly, but then he changes his mind. It’s hard to operationalize that.”
Sources told the news outlet that Witkoff refused to consult experts or prepare for meetings in the lead-up to the historic summit in Alaska, where Trump failed to secure a peace agreement in Ukraine. The envoy assumed, like Trump, that his personal charisma and rapport with the Russian president would be enough to force a breakthrough.
“The thing is, Witkoff isn’t consistently engaged,” a White House source told Politico. “He will pop in for a visit to Vladimir Putin, say a bunch of stuff, not tell anyone what really happened, and then just f--- off to his life again.”
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