Melania and Donald Trump met Putin in Finland in 2018.Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix/ZUMA

First Lady Melania Trump tends to be seen more often than she is heard. But when she does speak, it’s often hard to forget.

Take, for example, her infamous profanity-laden tirade against having to decorate the White House for Christmas, per tradition, and criticism for being “complicit” in the policy of separating immigrant families during her husband’s first term. Or her bizarre and baseless video from last year in which, while trying to hawk her memoir, she implied that conspiratorial forces were at work in the first attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Now, she has granted us another puzzling message—this time in epistolary form. In a letter first published by Fox News on Saturday, the First Lady wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin begging him to protect unnamed “children”—without specifying which children or what, exactly, she wants Putin to do to support them. The letter seems to be concerned with Ukrainian children—but never acknowledges the litany of indignities that they have suffered since Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

More than 600 Ukrainian children have been killed and more than 1,800 have been injured from the start of the war through last December, according to a report released earlier this year by the UN Human Rights Office. In addition, in 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest........

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