Trump Compared A Photo From His Meeting With Putin To Photos Of Nixon And Khrushchev

The U.S. president recalled Nixon's altercation with Khrushchev, which went down in history as a "kitchen debate."

US President Donald Trump has posted a photo on social network Truth Social with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin taken at a recent meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. The collage was complemented by another photo from 1959 showing U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee.

In both photos, U.S. politicians similarly point their fingers in the direction of their Russian counterparts. The second photo captures Nixon's arrival in Moscow. The photo belongs to photographer Elliott Erwitt.

A verbal altercation occurred between politicians from the US and the USSR in 1959 before the opening of an American trade exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki.

The politicians stopped in front of a model of an American kitchen, where home appliances such as washing machines, toasters and juicers were displayed. There, a verbal altercation, dubbed the "kitchen debate," broke out between them.

Khrushchev said Soviet citizens value more important things than luxuries and ironically asked Nixon if there was a machine that "puts food in your mouth and pushes it inside."

"You Americans expect Soviet people to be amazed. They aren't. We have all these things in our new apartments," Khrushchev said. Nixon replied that there was no goal to surprise Soviet citizens; the organizers wanted to "demonstrate our right to choose" and that all houses should not be built the same.

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