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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know, just after I give a preachy admonishment to DU about posting news too crazy to be true...
......reality apparently decides to turn everything on its head.
Yes, it really does look like Melania wore a jacket to visit separated immigrant children that bore the message "I Really Don't Care, Do U"?
I didn't believe it at first, and have always been a little leery of Daily Mail articles, but now you have an ABC reporter confirming it:
Link to tweet
Meridith McGraw?Verified account @meridithmcgraw
NEW: @FLOTUS spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham when asked what message the first lady's jacket intends to send: "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today's important visit to Texas, I hope this isn't what the media is going to choose to focus on."
The $39 ZARA jacket the first lady wore as she boarded a plane to visit immigrant families in Texas read: "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?"
11:40 AM - 21 Jun 2018
uponit7771
(90,353 posts)Vinca
(50,301 posts)Zoonart
(11,875 posts)Not this jacket?
Speaks volumes. The idea that the FLOTUS does not send any intentional message when wearing a MESSAGE garment is laughable on it's face.
FTA!
She can wear anything she wants and she picked that. Like the mother of the groom wearing all black to the wedding and saying it doesn't mean anything.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)She doesnt stoop to wearing anything she hasnt picked out herself.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)A wink to the base. To assure the base they still hate brown people.
Its what Republicans do. Like when VP Dick Cheney actually wore a "Staff" hat to the Auschwitz 60 year memorial in 2005. Yes, that's correct. VP of the United States wore an Auschwitz staff hat to a Holocaust memorial.
From ye archives... https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3024754
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)jcgoldie
(11,636 posts)It's literally a jacket with a message painted across the back of it? WTF?
Ezior
(505 posts)Melania doesn't give a fuck about those kids. That's the not-hidden message, as I understand it.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)Melania Trump wears $39 jacket with 'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' scrawled across the back as she boards a plane to visit immigrant children being held at the Texas border
The first lady wore the khaki green Zara jacket upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland but changed before she disembarked the plane in Texas
Her jacket had the phrase written across the back in white graffiti-style writing
Melania, 48, visited a shelter for children in McAllen, Texas, the day after her husband signed executive order ending policy of family separation for illegals
Her spokeswoman said it was her idea to visit before the president signed his executive order and he supported her trip
It is unclear how many were separated from their families, but Melania spoke to officials first before touring facility to meet children
Visit comes after political firestorm over explosion in number of children separated from parents because of 'zero tolerance' at border
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5871221/Melania-Trump-wears-jacket-REALLY-DONT-CARE-U-visit-immigrant-children.html
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and the spouse of Dirty Donny* don't give a shit.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
blake2012
(1,294 posts)And First Lady. They definitely vet all of these things.
Squinch
(50,990 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,371 posts)I mean, she is making the trip in order to show that she cares about something.
Zoonart
(11,875 posts)Melania Trump does not wear $39.00 anything.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)underpants
(182,866 posts)I'd guess its at least that in Texas.
Is the plane THAT cold?
haele
(12,673 posts)And someone probably gave it to her to wear - and she, being clueless, just put it on. Like any model would when handed something to wear by staff.
Haele
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)My initial reaction was that she thought she was going on a safari.
Bradshaw3
(7,526 posts)Americans want to love their first ladies but she did decide to marry the piece of shit knowing what he was like. Maybe she is every bit as fucked up in her way as he is.
struggle4progress
(118,323 posts)I hope the media isn't going to choose to focus on her wardrobe," East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham told CNN in a statement ...
Melania dons jacket saying 'I really don't care. Do U?' ahead of border visit
By Betsy Klein, CNN
Updated 3:18 PM ET, Thu June 21, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/melania-trump-jacket/index.html
IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)and search for a more reputable source before posting.
Yes, the first family is stupid and crazy and obviously trolling us
Wednesdays
(17,401 posts)Trek4Truth
(515 posts)about the dotard. She doesn't really hide how much she is disgusted with him. This is a shout out to the trump-napper.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,190 posts)...she could have done it in a better way.
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)send a public FU to him (again). On the other hand she is not "all in" with dissing dotard donnie either...so it's these little digs.
DBoon
(22,395 posts)nt
revmclaren
(2,529 posts)Only! 2018 - 2020.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Cambridge Analytica having the DNC emails a month prior to Wikileaks actually has legs. This would sure distract from what would be solid ground for moving towards impeachment.
LenaBaby61
(6,976 posts)Called an ape in heels, monkey, gorilla, man, transsexual, uppity and a N#@@%R for merely going sleeveless ....
Racism IS alive and well. Melanie proves that.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Not as damaging as terrorized children.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,190 posts)By wearing a jacket with a message of callous indifference while traveling to see immigrant children detained at the border, it only furthers the focus of said immigrant children detained at the border.
This is not 8th Dimensional Chess.
This is....well, I have no idea what it is.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Whether Melania is giving her Cretin spouse the finger or bitching at the media or unaware of her wardrobe or is it photoshopped or she is being secretively...whatever.
Its manipulative diversion.
In my eyes anyway.