‘There will be very severe consequences,’ Trump talks tough ahead of showdown with Putin

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TRUMP: ‘VERY SEVERE CONSEQUENCES’: When he wasn’t announcing his personal picks for Kennedy Center honors (“I turned down plenty … of wokesters,” he said.), President Donald Trump spent most of his day Wednesday reassuring nervous allies that he had no plans to give away the store when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in Alaska.

First in a virtual meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky and his key European allies, including Germany, the U.K., and France, and then in remarks at the Kennedy Center, Trump tried to tamp down fears that Putin was setting him up to be a patsy.

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