Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.

The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.

With Alaska in the rear-view mirror, Donald Trump is walking into a very different situation as he returns to work at the White House this week. His summit with Vladimir Putin is over, though the fallout continues.

President Donald Trump dismissed criticism of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska as "fake news" Sunday night on Truth Social, saying the war in Ukraine could be ended "almost immediately" but critics were making it harder to do so.

One key party who will not be in attendance Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said Thursday he hopes the summit will lead to a second meeting that would include Zelenskyy.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin seemed to echo President Trump’s unfounded claim that Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine in 2022 if the Republican was in office instead of former President Joe Biden.