US EditionPrivately Influential but Publicly Absent, Melania Trump Is Picking and Choosing Her Moments This Term
Ana Navarro accused First Lady Melania Trump of hypocrisy for her peace letter to Putin amid criticism of Trump's immigration policies affecting children in the U.S., highlighting domestic contradictions.
- On Instagram, The View co-host Ana Navarro attacked First Lady Melania Trump over a peace letter to Vladimir Putin, calling it hypocritical and urging her to address domestic child suffering linked to her husband's policies.
- Ahead of the Alaska summit, First Lady Melania Trump penned a direct appeal asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider children's wellbeing amid the war in Ukraine, and President Donald Trump delivered the letter.
- The co-host argued the First Lady's appeal rang hollow given U.S. immigration and welfare policies, urging Melania Trump to 'say the exact same thing to her husband' about children harmed by deportations and aid cuts.
- Analysts and insiders viewed the letter as a coordinated political move; Michael Wolff said, `If I'm reading between the lines, I think it's she's sending a message,' while Michael LaRosa called it a rare team effort by the Trumps.
- Melania Trump's public role has been deliberately limited with just 19 appearances, focusing selectively on children's issues including a $25 million foster youth investment the White House says she secured.
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After Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, she now receives mail from the unexpected side herself.
In Donald Trump’s White House, where everything seems to revolve around haughty phrases and blows of effect, Melania Trump has chosen another path: silence. But hers is a silence full of political gestures that, little by little, have marked the international agenda against all odds. The clearest sign that Melania is not what it seems came with her letter to Vladimir Putin. On a carefully written folio, an epistolary goldsmith’s work, she appeal…
By Betsy Klein, CNN Melania Trump hadn't been seen at the White House in over a month. But while her husband prepared for a crucial summit in Alaska with his Russian counterpart seeking to end the war in Ukraine, the first lady practiced diplomacy. “Dear President Putin,” she wrote in a direct appeal to the Russian president. “Every child shares the same peaceful dreams in their heart, whether they are born by chance in a country's countryside o…
While Donald Trump is negotiating with Putin in Alaska, his wife is stripping at a distance of 6,900 kilometres: Melania Trump writes a letter to the Kremlin chief, positioning herself as an invisible power behind the president.
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