The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has given Donald Trump a portrait that commissioned the president of the United States.
Putin gave the painting to Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Moscow earlier this month, said Russian President Dmitry Peskov spokesman, in an answer to the question of a journalist, rejecting more comments.
The gift was first mentioned last week by Witkoff In an interview with former Fox News presenter, Tucker Carlson. Witkoff told Carlson that Trump “was clearly touched” by the portrait, which he described as “beautiful.”
Witkoff met Putin after speaking with Russian officials about trying to end the war in Ukraine. Cease-fire The conversations continued on Monday In Saudi Arabia, where US officials met their Russian counterparts, one day after meeting with Ukrainian negotiators.
During his interview with Carlson, Witkoff described Putin’s gift as “friendly” and recalled how Putin told him that he had prayed for Trump last year when he heard that the then candidate for the presidency of the United States had received a shot in a rally in Pennsylvania. “He was praying for his friend,” said Witkoff, telling Putin’s comments.
In 2018, Putin gave the then president Trump A football ball That the secret service had reviewed listening devices before Trump gave it to his son, a caution that heard a gift from the Soviet era to an American diplomat that turned out to be wrong.
In 1945, a size of the great seal of the United States occurred as a gift from the children of the Soviet school to the then American ambassador Averell Harriman. He was in his office for six years allowing the Soviet Union to fit their conversations until the State Department discovered that it contained an undercover listening device.
It was not immediately known if the portrait Putin gave Trump had been examined by insects. The White House has not commented on the portrait.
Trump is not the first acting president to receive a gift from Putin. In 2021, Putin then gave President Joe Biden a $ 12,000 lacquer writing box and pen when they met at a summit in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013, according to reports, he sent President Barack Obama Porcelain plates and espresso cups.
Apparently, this is not the first portrait of an American leader who has sent. In 2014, the president of Russia Sent to George Hw Bush a portrait of the former president on his 90th birthday.
