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Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos

Source: N.Y Times
June 22, 2018 at 13:41
First lady Melania Trump made an unannounced trip to visit immigrant children at a shelter in Texas yesterday. Here she returns to the West Wing of the White House in her news-making jacket.CreditAndrew Harnik/Associated Press
First lady Melania Trump made an unannounced trip to visit immigrant children at a shelter in Texas yesterday. Here she returns to the West Wing of the White House in her news-making jacket.CreditAndrew Harnik/Associated Press
Melania Trump’s excursion in her “I Really Don’t Care” jacket did not send a hidden message. It was there for all to see.

“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?”

When the first lady, Melania Trump, on an unannounced humanitarian visit to a children’s shelter in Texas, strode onto her airplane in an olive green Zara army jacket with those words scrawled in faux white graffiti on the back, it sent the watching world into what might be called, with some understatement, a meltdown.

“Insensitive,” “heartless” and “unthinking” were some of the words hurled through the digisphere about the choice.

“It’s a jacket,” her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement to reporters. “There was no hidden message.”

She’s right, of course. It wasn’t hidden. It was literally written on the first lady’s back. The question is: Who was the intended audience?



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