Something is wrong. Unexpectedly The first ladies begin to write letters to each other and to the presidents of other countries. First, Melania Trump sent an appeal to Vladimir Putin, then Olena Zełanska wrote a letter to Melania Trump. And now Emine Erdogan also joins the game to soften the heart of the first US lady for children from the Gaza Strip.
With the help of emotional words, the presidential wife try to intervene in the affairs of their husbands and softeen. The letters show above all one thing: how desperate their husbands are.
Melania Trump to Vladimir Putin: When on August 15, the President of Russia visited the US President Donald Trump in Alaska for peaceful negotiations, the host handed him a letter from his wife Melania. The first lady of the US appealed to Putin to protect innocent children in the war zones. However, she did not mention the name of Ukraine, from where the Russians abducted thousands of children.
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Melania Trump, the first lady of the USA, and Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, during the meeting on the margins of the G20 summit. Hamburg, July 7, 2017
Olena Zełenska to Melania Trump: During the visit of Volodymyr Zelanski to Washington, on August 18, the Ukrainian president handed a letter to Donald Trump from his wife to give him the first US lady. In the letter, the first lady of Ukraine thanked Melania Trump for her involvement for children.
EMINE Erdogan to Melania Trump: The wife of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan also sent a letter to Melania Trump. She wrote in it that she trusted that the American first lady would show compassion for the suffering children in the Gaza Strip and defended them.
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Klemens Fischer, professor of international relations and geopolitics at the University of Cologne and a diplomat with 30 years of experience, talks about the “new dimension” of letters exchange – Especially in the context of Melania Trump's letter to Putin.
The pressure on Trump to take care of the uncertain situation of Ukrainian children and civilians is huge. Simultaneously The US president did not want to expose his peace peak to this one critical attention. – So the game goes on: the mother's appeal to the President of Russia is well received by all parties, brings prestige to Trump, does not put Putin in a bad light and serves European and Ukrainian demands – sums up Fischer.
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Ołena Zełenska during the Ukrainian Day at the Expo in Osaka, August 5, 2025.
In turn, the letter Emine Erdogan prof. Fischer even describes as “almost revolutionary” because It comes out of the shadow in a conservative Muslim political environment And he receives a significant role.
However, the letter from Zełenska is completely different. According to Fischer Rather, it will not go down in history. – On the one hand, just passing it on to Trump was embarrassing, on the other hand the letter was a kind of cheap copy of Melania's letter to Putin – says the professor.
“Calculated emotions and instrumentalization of the first ladies”
For Fischer, returning to an analog letter is a phenomenon that shows that Other diplomatic channels are almost blocked. He does not believe, however, that the initiative comes from the presidents' wives. They are probably behind their husbands.
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Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with his wife Emine Erdogan. Ankara, July 12, 2025
“Such letters are calculated emotions and instrumentalization of the first ladies,” says Fischer. After all which president could ignore his mother's beggars? – It puts Putin and Trump under pressure.
Will such letters help relieve the fronts? They certainly won't hurt, and if they succeed, they will be a very effective tool, says Fischer. – But it is a tool that must be Used very sparingly, otherwise it will quickly lose its effect – reserves.
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