A month after an Alaskan summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump still seems surprised that his gambit did not pay off with peace in Ukraine. “He really let me down.” JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. I would lose a lot of money.” In Trump’s defense, the White House has pointed to comments from European leaders who have praised his efforts working to forge peace agreements. That jeopardized negotiations that the United States has been trying to push along and rattled Arab leaders’ faith in Trump’s ability to influence, let alone rein in, Netanyahu. It’s a noticeable shift after Israel and Arab nations grew closer during Trump’s first term, when the Republican president championed the Abraham Accords.