President Donald Trump on Monday defended his much-criticized meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Trump: 'I gave up nothing' during Putin meeting “We got along very well, which is a good thing, except for the Corrupt Media!” he added.

President Donald Trump wrote online Monday that he “gave up nothing” during negotiations last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, insisting that the media have continued to paint an unfairly negative picture of the bilateral summit in Finland.

“When you hear the Fake News talking negatively about my meeting with President Putin, and all that I gave up, remember, I gave up NOTHING, we merely talked about future benefits for both countries,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Also, we got along very well, which is a good thing, except for the Corrupt Media!”


Trump has faced withering criticism over the past week for his summit with Putin, which included a one-on-one meeting between the two leaders and their respective translators as well as an expanded meeting with advisers and a joint news conference.

While Trump said Monday that he made no concessions during his meeting with Putin, the Kremlin has claimed several agreements were struck between the two presidents during their one-on-one session. The White House has revealed relatively little on the contents of Trump’s meeting with Putin, prompting some Democrats on Capitol Hill to call for a subpoena of the president’s translator, the only other American in the room for the one-on-one talks.

The bulk of the outcry over the Trump-Putin summit stemmed from the duo’s news conference, during which the U.S. president seemed to accept his Russian counterpart’s denial that the Kremlin had anything to do with a campaign of cyberattacks intended to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election that the U.S. intelligence community has blamed on Russia. Trump later sought to walk back that statement.

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Despite the controversy surrounding his bilateral meeting with Putin, Trump has claimed the summit was a success and has insisted that it only benefits the U.S. that he and the Russian president get along. He has complained loudly, even as he spent much of past week working to dampen the uproar created by the meeting, that the media have offered only negative coverage of his talks with Putin.