Melania Trump made her mark at her husband’s Ukrainian peace meetings without actually being present at all. The first lady was thanked in a separate X post from Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday night after several references to the 55-year-old absentee during Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian president and a number of European leaders.

Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for President Donald Trump to hand-deliver during the Alaska summit. The two world leaders sat down together in Anchorage on Aug.

The world has always created a mixed narrative about the First Lady, Melania Trump. One portrays the former model as aloof and absent, relatively uninterested in her husband Donald Trump‘s political career.

President Trump agreed to security guarantees for Ukraine once a peace agreement is reached with Russia, but he says that does not include U.S. troops on the ground. Meanwhile, an effort continues to set up historic talks between Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Russian President Putin.

President Donald Trump admitted that first lady Melania Trump prefers their son, Barron, to him while speaking with reporters this week