{"id":280580,"date":"2025-07-21T18:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280580\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:20:20","slug":"ukrainians-hail-melania-trump-after-presidents-change-of-tack-over-russia-melania-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280580\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainians hail Melania Trump after president\u2019s change of tack over Russia | Melania Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainians are celebrating Melania Trump<\/a> on social media in a series of memes, after Donald Trump suggested the first lady played a part in his apparent change of heart over Russia.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a meeting in the White House on Monday with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump said his wife had played a key role in pointing out Vladimir Putin\u2019s duplicity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy conversations with him [Putin] are always very pleasant. I say, isn\u2019t that a very lovely conversation? And then the missiles go off that night,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go home, I tell the first lady: I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation. She said: Really? Another city was just hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slovenian-born Melania Trump, who grew up in the former Yugoslavia, has previously appeared to be a bigger supporter of Ukraine than the sceptical US president, who in February this year called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator. Shortly after the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion, she appealed to her social media followers to donate to the Red Cross<\/a>, saying it was \u201cheartbreaking and horrific to see innocent people suffering\u201d.<\/p>\n

After Trump\u2019s Oval Office comments on Monday, one social media user posted a photo of \u201cAgent Melania Trumpenko\u201d wearing a blazer with a Ukrainian trident insignia. Her face is half-shaded with a big hat, giving the impression she is working undercover inside the White House, to Kyiv\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n

The magazine Business in Ukraine<\/a> observed that \u201cthere is a lot of love on social media tonight for Melania Trump\u201d after the announcement that the US would send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It reproduced a longstanding meme featuring three creatures wearing an army helmet and military caps. The image is used to denote a western politician or celebrity who supports or is friendly to Ukraine. The creatures give Melania a hat decorated with a Ukrainian flag.<\/p>\n

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Another meme shows the first lady standing behind her husband in the Oval Office, while he signs a presidential decree.<\/p>\n

The caption reads: \u201cSisters Melania of the Bene Gesserit\u201d \u2013 a reference to the powerful, secret and politically influential sisterhood from Frank Herbert\u2019s science fiction book Dune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainians are celebrating Melania Trump on social media in a series of memes, after Donald Trump suggested the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-280580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114892611513379658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}