I like having a supermodel for a First Lady and I’m not talking about Dr. Jill Biden or Michelle Obama. I’m talking about Melania Trump. She is a beautiful and dignified woman.
The authorship of a letter to Vladimir Putin is attributed to Mrs. Trump. I don’t believe it. Whoever wrote it has revived the spirit of John Lennon in his “Imagine” phase. I imagine that AI or a nitwit staffer wrote it.
FOX News has posted the letter here and in the tweet below.
EXCLUSIVE: I obtained @FLOTUS Melania Trump’s “peace letter” to Russian President Putin. She says “it is time.” https://t.co/IHMHpiCsCI pic.twitter.com/gssfxDNeqY
— Brooke Singman (@BrookeSingman) August 16, 2025
“Dear President Putin,” the letter begins. “Every child shares the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether born randomly into a nation’s rustic countryside or a magnificent city-center. They dream of love, possibility, and safety from danger.”
Would AI join a singular subject with a plural pronoun? I would like to think not. This must be the work of a White House staffer who hasn’t yet learned how to write real good.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the letter goes downhill from there. “Undeniably, we must strive to paint a dignity-filled world for all—so that every soul may wake to peace, and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded. A simple yet profound concept, Mr. Putin, as I am sure you agree, is that each generation’s descendants begin their lives with a purity—an innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology.”
I am reminded of William F. Buckley’s column, dated April 23, 1968, and collected in The Governor Listeth (1970). Buckley quoted from a campaign speech by Nelson Rockefeller:
We can live together as bullies — or as brothers.
We can practice retribution or reconciliation.
We can choose a life of the jungle or of justice.
We cannot have both….
We must choose.
Buckley commented: “We must cut the crap.”
The linked Fox News story reports that President Trump hand-delivered to Putin before their meeting in Alaska. So perhaps the underlying thought is that you better not let my old lady down or there will be hell to pay. That is a thought with which I can get on board, but it tends to belie the Lennonist sentiments of the letter.
