‘Your mom did’: US press secretary odd reply to reporter who asked about Trump-Putin meeting

edward douglas white jr. Put up press out secretarial assistant Karoline Leavitt on mon snapped at a reporter after he questioned her about the location of the tentative meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Leavitt dubbed the journalist as "left wing hack" and said he is not a journalist.

Amid reports that Trump will soon meet with Putin to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine, the reporter texted Leavitt asking her who chose the location for the meeting, she replied, "Your mom did."

The US press secretary went on to share the screenshot of her exchange with the journalist, alleging that his messages resembled an "anti-US President Donald Trump diary."

"For context, S.V. Date of the Huffington Post is not a journalist interested in the facts. He is a left-wing hack who has consistently attacked President Trump for years and constantly bombards my phone with Democrat talking points. Just take a look at SV Date's feed, it reads like an anti-Trump personal diary. Here is my full response to his "inquiry." Activists who masquerade as real reporters do a disservice to the profession."

According to reports, no date has been finalised for the summit, which is expected to be held in the Hungarian capital in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is willing to join the summit arranged between United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Al Jazeera reported.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Zelenskyy said he would take part if he were invited. The Ukrainian president is wary of the setting for the meeting in Budapest, given Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's warm relations with Moscow and antagonistic approach to Kyiv, as per Al Jazeera.

"If I am invited to Budapest - if it is an invitation in a format where we meet as three or, as it's called, shuttle diplomacy, President Trump meets with Putin and President Trump meets with me - then in one format or another, we will agree," Zelenskyy said.

Trump has continued to push for an end to the war that began in February 2022 when Russia invaded invaded Ukraine.

Zelenskyy, however, warned against a repeat of "Budapest scenario" - a reference to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum - in which Moscow and other powers provided security assurances to Ukraine and other former Soviet states in exchange for their giving up the nuclear arsenals they inherited from Soviet times, Al Jazeera reported.

(With inputs from agencies)

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