US summit plan documents left in Alaska hotel printer? Here's what papers revealed

Donald Trump's team left the documents having the US plans for the Alaska summit in the hotel printer in Anchorage, before the president headed for the meeting. As per a report by NPR, there were eight page of the document found in the hotel printer having details of what Trump had to doscuss with his Russian counterpart Vladmir Putin on April 15. NPR posted the documents online. The outlet said the documents appeared to be produced by Trump administration officials in charge of summit planning and included the precise locations and times for the scheduled meetings, as well as the phone numbers of US government employees.

The documents also had a schedule for the planned events, the menu for the working lunch between the two delegations, which was skipped, and details of which officials were supposed to attend each round of talks.

The papers revealed that Trump’s team had planned for a 2-on-2 meeting, in which Trump and Putin were to have been joined by just one aide each. Trump was planned to be accompanied by Steve Witkoff, the president’s friend and special envoy to Russia. The point to be noted here is that Witkoff had no prior diplomatic experience. Later on, just ahead of the meeting, the White House announced that Marco Rubio, Trump's state secretary will also join the meeting. That meeting was planned to last just 40 minutes, but in the end went on for nearly three hours and replaced the working lunch, which was scrapped.

The documents also revealed that the US planners expected a joint news conference after lunch to last for a full hour. Instead, Putin and Trump delivered short statements for just 12 minutes and took no questions.

Trump-Putin meeting delegation team

US delegation

1. Marco Rubio - US Secretary of State

The 54-year-old was once a top critic of Trump, and now he is joining a crucial meeting with the American president as his top aide.

2. John Ratcliffe - CIA director

The 59-year-old John Ratcliffe served as Trump’s director of national intelligence from 2020 to 2021.

3. Steve Witkoff - Special envoy to Ukraine and the Middle East

The 68-year-old could be said as the most important person in the delegation of US delegation as he is serving as the special envoy in the war in Ukraine.

4. Scott Bessent - Treasury secretary

Bessent is a billionaire and the the most influential figures in Trump’s economic orbit. He has worked as the chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management. In the Alaska summit, he is expected to explore economic incentives and investment arrangements that could be offered to Moscow in exchange for concessions.

5. Howard Lutnick - Secretary of commerce

Lutnick, 63, is a Wall Street power broker turned political appointee, a blunt, hard-driving negotiator with a taste for the spotlight.

Apart from these, Trump's delegation has 11 more offivcials, including press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The Russian delegation

1. Sergei Lavrov - Russian Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov, 75, has been in his post as the foreign minister of Putin since 2004. Hence, he is the longest-tenured senior diplomat in the world. Known for his gravel-voiced delivery and combative press conferences, Lavrov has been central to crafting and defending Moscow’s foreign policy from the Iraq war to the annexation of Crimea and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

2. Yuri Ushakov - Russian Foreign Policy advisor

The 78-year-old is a veteran presidential aide and one of Putin’s most trusted foreign policy advisers. He has served as Russia’s ambassador to the US from 1998 to 2008.

3. Andrei Belousov - Defence minister

The 66-year-old is one of the few technocrats to ascend to the Kremlin’s top security posts. His appointment came as a surprise in 2024 after he replaced the longtime incumbent Sergei Shoigu. It was seen as an attempt by the Kremlin to rein in corruption in the armed forces and to accelerate the transformation of Russia’s militarised economy into a full-scale war economy, now expanding at double-digit rates.

4. Kirill Dmitriev - Russian Direct Investment Fund chief

The 50-year-old Dmitriev is a relatively new kid on the Kremlin block, yet he has emerged as a key operator between Moscow and the business-oriented Trump administration. He is expected to pitch ambitious plans for economic and infrastructure cooperation in the Arctic during the summit.

5. Anton Siluanov - Finance minister

Siluanov, 62, has been in his post since 2011 and is a key architect of the Kremlin’s efforts to keep the economy afloat in the face of the invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions.