It was a thrilling moment when three Americans who had been held hostage in Russia emerged from their airplane about midnight, to be greeted in American soil by President Biden and Vice-President Harris. Almost all of their fellow citizens were thrilled, except for one: Donald Sourpuss Trump.

Trump was jealous that Biden got credit for negotiating the complicated deal involved multiple nations and hostages. It was really stung Trump when the Chancellor of Germany, who held the assassin that Putin wanted most, said that he agreed to the deal but “only for Biden.”

Trump congratulated Putin.

Josh Dawsey reported in The Washington Post:

ATLANTA — Former president Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin over a prisoner swap that took place this week, saying the Russian strongman had outsmarted U.S. officials as part of the largest such deal since the end of the Cold War.

At a rally here on Saturday, Trump did not mention any of the American prisoners who were released in the deal — including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned for more than a year on charges the U.S. government has denounced as fabricated. In his previous comments on the deal, Trump has not mentioned any of the prisoners by name either, only criticized the U.S. government.

“I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. … We have 59 hostages; I never paid anything. … Boy, we make some horrible, horrible deals. It’s nice to say we got ’em back, but does that set a bad precedent?” Trump said…

In fact, Trump authorized an agreement to pay $2 million to North Korea for medical bills in the release of Otto Warmbier, the comatose University of Virginia student sent home from Pyongyang in 2017, The Washington Post reported. Trump claimed the bill was never paid. Warmbier died soon after his return.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said this week that no money changed hands in the latest prisoner swap.

Trump had been reluctant to speak about Gershkovich for about the first year of the reporter’s detention but finally called for his release in May. The former president has repeatedly bragged about his close relationship with Putin, but also says that Putin respects him and would have never invaded Ukraine if Trump was president.

On several public occasions in recent months, Trump has said he would get Gershkovich released as soon as he was elected in November, and Putin would do it “for me, but not anyone else.”

The key to the swap was Germany, which held in prison a Russian agent who murdered a dissident in a park in broad daylight. Putin wanted him more than any other, to prove he could bring his killers home. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said publicly that he agreed because Biden asked him, and he said, “Yes, only for you.”

Biden said, “it’s good to have friends.”