Trump criticises media for "unfair" coverage of his meeting with Putin

US President Donald Trump has criticised the media for the biased coverage of his upcoming meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The head of the White House was outraged by how the media is presenting the upcoming summit with the Kremlin leader.

"Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, 'Putin has already won'," Donald Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social.

Instead, he underlined that the US is "winning in everything" and that information from the fake media cannot be trusted.

"If I got Moscow and Leningrad [St Petersburg – ed.] for free, as part of the deal with Russia, the fake news would say that I made a bad deal... They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our country. But it doesn't matter because we are winning on everything!" Trump wrote.

US President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will meet in Anchorage, Alaska, on 15 August.

CNN reports that Trump and Putin will meet at a military base, although the White House wanted to avoid this.