Trump published his photo with Putin in Alaska alongside a photo of Nixon and Khrushchev in Moscow

U.S. President Donald Trump published a collage of two photographs: one of himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and the other from July 1959, showing then–U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon (under President Dwight D. Eisenhower) with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

The collage appeared on Trump’s social network, Truth Social.

In the first image, the U.S. president is pointing his finger at the Russian leader’s chest — a photograph previously released by the White House.

The second photo, taken by Elliott Erwitt, was shot during Nixon’s visit to Moscow in the Cold War period. In that picture, the American politician similarly points his finger at the Soviet leader’s chest. The meeting went down in history as the “Kitchen Debate”: Nixon and Khrushchev argued over the merits of capitalism and socialism.

The name comes from the fact that the politicians were debating at the opening of the American National Exhibition “U.S. Industrial Products” at the Sokolniki Park exhibition center in Moscow, inside the decorations of a model American home.

The two stopped in front of a model American kitchen complete with household appliances: washing machines, toasters, and juicers. There, they engaged in a verbal exchange. Khrushchev remarked that Soviet citizens valued more important things than luxury, and sarcastically asked Nixon whether there was a machine that could “put food in your mouth and push it down inside.”