‘She called this’: Kamala’s ‘Putin would eat Trump for lunch’ video resurfaces after Alaska summit

Former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris‘ once-viral statements about Donald Trump’s “friendship” with Vladimir Putin, whom she out-and-out referred to as a “dictator,” have again become the focus of social media attention in light of the two presidents’ summit in Alaska this week.

The resurfaced clip catches the former US vice president clashing with her then-Republican rival during ABC’s September 2024 presidential debate. Not only did she savage the MAGA leader, saying that the Russian president “would eat you for lunch,” but she also firmly stood on the belief that if Trump were to become president, “Putin would be sitting Kyiv right now.”

Kamala Harris called out Trump’s ‘friendship’ with ‘dictator’ Putin: Throwback

At the time, Harris further accused the Republican politician of abandoning Ukraine despite the US’ prolonged military funding of the country. “Understand why the European allies and our NATO allies are so thankful that you are no longer president and that we understand the importance of the greatest military alliance the world has ever known, which is NATO,” she said during the ABC News presidential debate in September last year.

She added, “What we have done to preserve the ability of Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians to fight for their independence. Otherwise, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe. Starting with Poland.”

Akin to his current stand on the matter, Trump countered her then, arguing that the war wouldn’t even have started had he been in the office in 2022. Moreover, Putin “would be sitting in Moscow, and he wouldn’t have lost 300,000 men and women” to the war.

Kamala Harris’ Trump comments resurface after Alaska summit

“She. Called. This,” wrote @AmoneyResists, an anti-Trump page on X. Bringing back the snippet of the 2024 presidential debate, they added, “Spectacularly. Every word.”

In the context of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska this Friday, social media users are especially looking back at what they now deem to have been Kamala Harris’ ‘prediction.’ The former vice president’s comments have particularly re-gained momentum on the platform since many believe the Friday meeting to have dealt out an indisputable win for the Russian president.

Putin earns Trump’s favour after Alaska summit?

Even though Trump had the home country advantage in Anchorage, many had already acknowledged the meeting happening without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as giving away a big point to Putin beforehand.

Both Putin and Trump ramped up their praises of each other in front of the cameras after their closed-doors meeting in Anchorage. The Kremlin leader even ended up inviting the US president to Moscow for a future visit as if the summit were nothing more than a reunion of best friends.

Doubling down on his efforts to stay on Trump’s side, Putin not only backed his 2020 election fraud claims, but he also reiterated the 79-year-old American leader’s boasts. On the eve of the Alaska summit, the Republican politician again pushed that Russia’s war in Ukraine would have never begun in the first place had he been the president at the time.

Putin fanned the fire of Trump’s self-aggrandising statements the very next day after being treated to a red carpet welcome, as he said, “Today President Trump was saying that if he was president back then, there would be no war, and I’m quite sure that it would indeed be so… I can confirm that.” On top of that, he further turned up his ‘Trump-supporter’ aura by siding with the US leader’s conspiracy theories, as Trump affirmed in a post-event interview, “He said ‘your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.’”

While the nearly three-hour interaction between them churned out an inconclusive result, Putin ultimately left town without any sanction impositions or even a ceasefire announcement. As per US reports, European leaders privy to Trump’s information of his meeting with Putin have since divulged that the Russian president has doubled down on his desire for territorial gain in exchange for a lasting peace deal.

Trump’s U-turn as Putin calls for territorial control

In a major reversal from his previous position, Trump wrote on Truth Social “he best way to end the horrific war” would be a permanent peace agreement because ceasefires often “do not hold up.”

However, Putin’s “peace” offer reportedly presented to Trump now demands Ukraine withdraw from the Donbas region in exchange for his command to freeze the front lines Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Russia claims this region to be Russian territory, as it already control most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk (Donbas is composed of both regions).

Trump has since revealed that he’s relayed the so-called “land swaps” proposition to Zelenskyy during their “lengthy” call.

However, Zelenskyy, on his part, shunned the notion of giving up on Donbas. One of the very first reactions from Trump after the Alaska summit entailed putting the onus of a ceasefire/peace deal on the Ukrainian president altogether despite pitching himself as a nominee for Nobel Peace Prize. Ukrainian officials have since viewed his VIP treatment of Putin and the subsequent U-turn as signs of betrayal.