It can’t be easy — especially if you’re a self-styled “stable genius” with an ego the size of Cassiopeia — to suddenly find out that your wife is not just a pretty face, but is also smarter than you.

And that perhaps if you’d listened to her in the first place, you might actually have been able to put an end to the war in Ukraine as promised.

After all, she did grow up in Slovenia, once a part of communist Yugoslavia. If anyone would be expected to understand the workings of a totalitarian regime and its leader, she would.

You probably know by now that I’m talking about first lady Melania Trump, who keeps a very low public profile and rarely comments on political matters. But it seems that, at least now and then, she does speak to her husband . . . who, of course, is none other than Donald Trump. And one thing she told him made its way back to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at a meeting in the Oval Office yesterday morning.

While discussing issues regarding a hoped-for ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, Trump tossed in a personal anecdote:

“I go home, I tell the first lady, ‘You know, I spoke to Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ And she said, ‘Oh really? Another city was just hit.” [Joey Garrison, USA Today, July 14, 2025.]

And — apparently finding the whole embarrassing exchange somehow worth repeating — he enlarged upon the same story at a luncheon later that day with his newly-established Faith Office gang in the White House State Dining Room:

“I’d get home, I’d say, ‘First lady [I’m sure he really calls her that, aren’t you?], I had the most wonderful talk with Vladimir. I think we’re finished.’ And then I’ll turn on the television, or she’ll say to me one time, ‘Wow, that’s strange because they just bombed a nursing home.’” [Id.]

According to first-hand reports, there was laughter from the crowd, so maybe it was funny after all . . . if you have a warped, sadistic sense of humor.

(Note: More about the White House Faith Office coming up in a separate article.)

The real tragedy is that he still doesn’t get it. Despite his recent blustering threats of going full monty on Putin, and his protestations that he’s had it with the Russian leader’s lies and the rising death toll in Ukraine, Trump has now given him another 50 days — just short of two months — to agree to a “deal” or face crippling tariffs.

And in a late phone call with the BBC, he still maintained that he is “disappointed but not done with Vladimir Putin.” When pressed by the interviewer as to whether he trusts Putin, he replied, “I trust almost no-one.” [Gary O’Donoghue, BBC, July 15, 2025.]

Which doesn’t exactly answer the question, does it?

*. *. *

In May and June of this year, an estimated 415 Ukrainian civilians were killed by Putin’s barrages, and another 2,179 injured. [Google AI-Overview.] And Trump — who repeatedly expresses horror at the unnecessary casualties of the ongoing war — has just given Putin enough time to take aim at that many additional civilians . . . or more.

And he thinks his wife’s comments are amusing.

It boggles the mind . . . and turns the stomach.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
7/15/25