Trump Humiliated Again by Putin After ‘Peace Deal’ Crashes and Burns

Donald Trump’s much-touted plan to “end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours” has officially imploded — and Vladimir Putin might be the only one smirking.

The dramatic fallout hit Wednesday after Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer bluntly told reporters that “everyone knew” the Russian leader was never serious about peace. “Putin is the aggressor here,” Starmer said in Parliament. “He’s dragging his feet, not wanting to come to the table.”

Trump, who’d been boasting that his secret 28-point peace plan would finally win him the Nobel Prize he’s “always deserved,” watched the dream collapse when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky canceled talks in Brussels with Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Even Secretary of State Marco Rubio bailed on a major NATO summit — the first U.S. no-show since 1999 — as the “deal team” scrambled back to D.C.

The chaos followed Putin’s chest-thumping declaration that Russia was “ready right now” for war in Europe. For Kyiv, that was the final straw. Ukraine flatly rejected both of Trump’s proposed deals — the original 28-point plan and a “watered-down” 19-point redo that still demanded Ukraine surrender parts of Donetsk and slash its army by 25 percent.

European leaders didn’t hold back. Estonia’s foreign minister called Putin’s latest moves “pretty obvious warmongering,” while Starmer dubbed the entire peace-talks saga “Kremlin claptrap.”

Still, Russia’s PR machine tried to soften the blow for Trump, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling the talks “a normal process” — before admitting Moscow found Trump’s terms “unacceptable.”

Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov added that “there’s still a lot of work to be done,” even as both sides quietly acknowledged the talks are dead in the water.

The spectacle marks another diplomatic face-plant for Trump, who greeted Putin like an old buddy at their high-profile Alaska summit back in August. The meeting produced zero breakthroughs, but Trump insisted afterward that “great progress” was made — a claim that now looks painfully hollow.

For now, Trump’s dream of a Nobel Prize may have to wait — though one of his loyalists, Steve Witkoff, still told him he was “the single finest candidate in Nobel history.”

Maybe next season.