First lady makes cameo appearance at Trump-Putin meeting
HAMBURG — First Lady Melania Trump, sidelined for part of Friday’s international summit events by anti-globalization protesters, had a cameo appearance at her husband’s closely watched meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The meeting between Putin and President Donald Trump, scheduled to last 35 minutes, was running so long that at one point U.S. officials dispatched the first lady to try and help wrap things up inside the small Hamburg meeting room, according to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
“We went another hour after she came to see us, so clearly she failed,” Tillerson later told reporters in a light-hearted after-action report.
The meeting stretched to 2 hours and 16 minutes in all.