Kirill Dmitriev first posted about the idea on Thursday, suggesting a “Putin-Trump” rail tunnel could connect the two countries under the Bering Strait, which separates Russia’s vast and sparsely populated Chukotka region from Alaska.
Asked about the idea during a press conference with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, Donald Trump called it “interesting”.
He also asked President Zelenskyy what he made of it, to which Mr Zelenskyy replied: “I’m not happy with this idea.”
This prompted laughter from the US side.
Overnight, Mr Dmitriev posted on X, saying: "We have started the feasibility study of the Russia-Alaska tunnel six months ago.
You are not wrong
It’s kinda sad, in a way.
You remember the kid who was kinda dumb and weird but he would hang out with the “cool kids”?
I mean, he thought they were cool, and maybe a few different cliques agreed…but most people thought they were dicks.
But they’d all make fun about him behind his back or even right in front of him and he’d be too dumb to realize that he was a punching bag.
Kinda feels like that.