Melania's VERY Weird, Tone-Deaf Letter to Putin
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:20.9 | bulwark here. A big move from the Trump camp is they tried to get a breakthrough with Vladimir |
| 0:25.6 | Putin today. And it's so silly, I couldn't wait until tomorrow's podcast with Bill Crystal to talk to |
| 0:32.1 | you all about it. So we've got to do a little bit right now. I feel like you deserve a dramatic |
| 0:36.0 | reading of something. I haven't done a dramatic reading in a minute. Trump's third wife, the first lady of the United States, |
| 0:43.1 | Melania, Trump put out a letter. Melania, maybe the secret weapon here that Trump needs after he |
| 0:52.0 | made no apparent progress during the Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:58.1 | We are on the eve of Zelensky coming to the United States flanked by a bunch of European leaders. |
| 1:05.8 | I think it's a smart strategic move to ensure that Donald Trump doesn't try to embarrass him again or bully him. |
| 1:10.8 | On the eve of that, we see this gambit, I guess. strategic move to ensure that Donald Trump doesn't try to embarrass him again or bully him. |
| 1:17.9 | On the eve of that, we see this gambit, I guess, let's call it, from the first lady. |
| 1:19.4 | How should we describe it? |
| 1:21.8 | It's very strange. |
| 1:26.6 | I would say that it was plagiarized, but it reads like it's much more likely that it was AI slopped and plagiarized. |
| 1:28.7 | It does not certainly does not read like she's copying some rhetoric from somebody else. |
| 1:34.4 | It's because it's all too strange for that. |
| 1:35.9 | There's a little bit of an ESL vibe to it. |
| 1:39.2 | And I guess you should say also in this context, Melania, I don't know if I can even get out Melania |
| 1:45.6 | to her credit because I just, I can't with Melania. But supposedly she's been talking to Trump |
| 1:51.6 | about how Putin's continuing to bomb and attack Ukraine and how there have been civilian deaths |
| 1:56.5 | and children's deaths. So this desire to make a public statement to Putin seems to come from that. |
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