Television commentators presented criticism of Trump and the summit . David Gergen , an advisor to four presidents including Ronald Reagan , stated " I 've never heard an American president talk that way , but I think it 's especially true that when he 's with someone like Putin — who is a thug , a world-class thug — that he sides with him again and again against his own country 's interests . " Fox & Friends , a morning program which Trump is known to regularly watch , was critical of Trump 's performance , with co-host Brian Kilmeade speaking directly to the president , " I will say this to the president : when Newt Gingrich , when General Jack Keane , when Matt Schlapp say the president fell short and made our intelligence apparatus look bad , I think it 's time to pay attention . " On MSNBC , Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said that the Russian meddling attempts were as serious to her " as the Cuban Missile Crisis ... or the 9/11 attack " and further stated that the summit will " live in infamy as much as " the Attack on Pearl Harbor or Kristallnacht . Former national security advisor Susan Rice stated that the US-Russia summit was a bad mistake , citing many reasons , and that any future meeting would be premature
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
2018 Russia–United States summit