Some media outlets and reporters seemed determined to find anything to downplay or diminish President Donald Trump's bilateral summit on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which aimed to start the process toward a peace deal to end Russia's war with Ukraine.

Trump-hating NPR, followed by other like-minded outlets, seized upon the alleged discovery of official government documents that provided some of the protocol details of the high-level meeting, according to the Daily Mail.

Yet, while some in the media hyperventilated over the purported "security breach" and leak of "sensitive" information, the White House laughed off the "hilarious" would-be scandal as much ado about nothing.

Summit itinerary, lunch menu found

In an "exclusive" investigative report, NPR breathlessly revealed that three alleged guests at the luxurious Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska, had discovered on Friday morning eight pages of an official State Department protocol document in a public printer that included "undisclosed and potentially sensitive details" about the Trump-Putin meeting held later that day.

The documents, produced by the State Department's Office of the Chief of Protocol, Monica Crowley, provided a timeline and the locations of the sequence of events that would occur at the Arctic Warriors Event Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, and, as standard protocol dictates, that Trump would present a gift to Putin, which was to be an "American Bald Eagle Desk Statue."

The documents also provided the names, with proper pronunciations, and images of the Russian participants in the summit, along with the names and images of their U.S. counterparts, which, in addition to the president, included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

The document further contained a seating chart for a scheduled lunch, which ultimately never occurred, along with a menu of what was to be served, which included a starter salad, filet mignon or halibut as the main course, and crème brûlée with ice cream for dessert.

Perhaps the only truly "sensitive" nonpublic information included in the documents, aside from the particular rooms within the secured facility on the U.S. military base where the planned events would occur, was the names and phone numbers of three protocol office staffers.

This is the latest "worst thing ever"

The NPR report treated the alleged discovery of the standard protocol documents in a hotel printer as though it were yet another massive "security breach" by the Trump administration, and quoted a UCLA law professor and national security expert, Jon Michaels, as suggesting that this was a very bad thing that had happened.

"It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration," the professor said. "You just don't leave things in printers. It's that simple."

The Daily Mail predictably jumped on the ridiculous "shocked and outraged" bandwagon as well, but aimed the bulk of its purported ire at Crowley, who bears responsibility for overseeing all diplomatic etiquette and protocol niceties for such official events involving foreign dignitaries.

The outlet seemingly took particular exception to a photo of Crowley smiling while shaking hands with President Putin, and exploited the opportunity to dredge up old and supposedly controversial remarks the former Fox News contributor had made about former President Barack Obama years earlier.

"Hilarious" purported security scandal

According to The Hill, the White House largely laughed off the purported "security breach" with a statement released on Saturday by White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly.

"It’s hilarious that NPR is publishing a multi-page lunch menu and calling it a 'security breach,'" Kelly said. "This type of self-proclaimed 'investigative journalism' is why no one takes them seriously, and they are no longer taxpayer-funded thanks to President Trump."