In theory, it was perhaps a noble gesture: First Lady Melania Trump sending a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin pleading for the safety and welfare of the children. In practice, it was, well, a bit barmy.

The View” co-host Ana Navarro derided first lady Melania Trump’s peace letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin as something that “falls under the category of stuff that’s so hypocritical you almost can’t believe it” on Tuesday.

Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for President Donald Trump to hand-deliver during the Alaska summit. The two world leaders sat down together in Anchorage on Aug.

Instead, it appears this letter was whipped up to appeal to a much different audience: Trump’s MAGA base, especially those needing reassurance that he cares about “the children” after weeks of painful reminders he had a decade-plus close friendship with a man who was reportedly the world’s most infamous pedophile.

In a letter posted online by President Trump, the first lady wrote to Russia’s leader but didn’t mention Ukraine. At the White House, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine brought Mr. Trump a letter from his own wife to Ms.

First lady Melania Trump came under fire last week for a letter she penned urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to protect “children,” a letter critics panned as “pathetic” and “performative.” After the letters’ content was published,

The Russian president and his thugs may well have created an implacable foe in the White House who cannot be displaced.