Overview

• President Trump hand-delivered the First Lady’s letter to Vladimir Putin during last week’s Alaska summit, according to the Daily Mail.
• The note urged Putin to “think of the children” and spoke of children’s shared dreams without naming Ukraine, which some outlets interpreted as alluding to Ukrainian children reportedly taken by Russian forces.
• Trump later told Volodymyr Zelensky that Putin received the letter “very well,” the Daily Mail reported.
• Trump biographer Michael Wolff said on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast that the letter was a deliberate “diss” of the president and a message from Melania.
• Unnamed insiders told the Daily Mail the episode is the talk of the White House and raised questions about a possible breaking of ranks, as Melania’s public profile grows through paid speeches, a memoir, and an Amazon documentary deal.