Storm over Melania’s jacket
– First Lady Melania Trump’s visit on Thursday to a Texas shelter housing migrant children separated from their parents was overshadowed by a jacket she wore with the words: “I really don’t care, do u?” scrawled in white brush strokes on the back.
Melania Trump was shown in photos wearing the hooded jacket as she boarded a flight from Andrews Air Force Base to the border facility in McAllen, Texas. She had it on again upon returning to Washington DC later in the evening.
“It’s a jacket,” Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s spokesperson, told reporters. “There was no hidden message.”
Defending his wife, Trump tweeted that the message referred to the Fake News Media. “Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”
The backlash came fast and furious on Twitter, threatening to undercut her compassionate visit to the shelter.
Her unannounced visit to Texas came a day after her husband President Donald Trump signed an executive order to modify his administration’s practice of separating children from their migrant parents when they illegally enter the United States.
The president ordered federal agencies on Thursday to begin reuniting immigrant families at the US-Mexico border.
Melania Trump met with staff in McAllen where over 50 children aged 12 to 17 were housed. Six of them were separated from their parents upon crossing the border, authorities told reporters. By then the jacket was not in sight. –