'Putin's Poodle' and other scathing comments emerge after Trump's appearance in Helsinki
by Christina Boyle and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Jul 18, 2018
3 minutes
LONDON - The headlines were brutal.
"Best ally of Putin," said Tuesday's front page of France's sober-minded Le Monde.
"Trump makes it easy for Putin," echoed German's Die Welt.
"Trump 0, Putin 1," said the Finnish business daily Kauppalehti, playing off the just-concluded World Cup soccer tournament in Russia.
In globe-spanning day-after news coverage, Helsinki, the Finnish capital where Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump met Monday, suddenly became shorthand for what was widely described as a very bad day for the U.S. president.
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