The backslapping bonhomie that started the day vanished into the stormy sulk and red glower from Donald Trump across a podium from Vladimir Putin, who still glowed with success. The Alaskan summit was a humiliation for Trump.
His hopes of winning a Nobel Peace Prize didn’t crystallise in this meeting of superpowers dissolved. Even the key word of the whole farrago – “ceasefire” – had vanished.
