Is First Lady Melania Trump now “top advisor” Melania Trump?
Reports from the Trump administration now say that the first lady is directly responsible for one of President Donald Trump’s latest moves thanks to her “tough words.”
President Trump told the media yesterday that the first lady may have helped convince him to ramp up military aid to Ukraine.
While explaining his recent decision to get tough on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said his wife was one of the people who directly pointed out to him that Putin always backs out of his promises following their phone calls over a peace deal.
Trump was meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte when he spoke with reporters about the ongoing war. He explained that his wife pointed out Putin’s false promises following Trump’s phone calls with the Russian leader amid calls for a deal to end the conflict.
“I go home, I tell the first lady, ‘You know, I spoke to Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ She said, ‘Oh, really? Another city was just hit,’” he said, recounting one of their recent calls.
“There’s times I’d get home. I’d say, ‘First lady, I had three most wonderful talk with Vladimir. I think we’re finished.’ And then I’ll turn on the television, or she’ll say to me one time, ‘Wow, that’s strange because they just bombed a nursing home,'” Trump recalled in another conversation. “I’d say, ‘What?’”
Melania, who is originally from Slovenia, has not publicly spoken out on the Ukraine war before, but the country of her birth has kept cold relations with Russia since the invasion began in February 2022.
Just a month into the war, a Russian airstrike destroyed Slovenia’s consulate in Ukraine during an attack on Kharkiv, the nation’s second-largest city.
Slovenia, a member of the European Union, declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, with the socialist republic’s army yielding following a ten-day war.
However, according to reports, the Kremlin has repeatedly fired ever-escalating waves of drone and missile attacks at Ukraine following the calls with Trump.
Trump announced this week that he was fed up with Moscow as he vowed to commit “billions of dollars” worth of weapons to Ukraine and levy 100% tariffs against Russia if Putin continues to reject a US-backed cease-fire agreement over the next 50 days.
Perhaps a decision instigated by the first lady?
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