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First Lady Melania Trump said she was sending a message to her detractors, including the left wing media, when she wore the now infamous jacket on a surprise visit to immigrant detention facilities, emblazoned with the phrase I DONT REALLY CARE DO U? Asked during an ABC News interview why she wore the jacket, the first lady said, Its obvious that I didnt wear the jacket for the children. I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane. And it was for the people and the left wing media who are criticizing me. And I want to show them that I dont care. You could criticize, whatever you want to say, it will not stop me to do what I feel is right. After the image of Trump boarding the plane wearing the jacket vent viral, her spokesman said there was no hidden message. But in the interview, the first lady admitted it was kind of a message and that she wore the jacket on her way back from her visit because I see how the media got obsessed about it. She added, I would prefer that they focus on what I do, on my initiatives, than what I wear.
Link to tweet
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-i-wore-the-jacket-to-tell-left-wing-media-that-i-dont-care?ref=home
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,720 posts)She married trump for money and not love. At heart, Melania couldn't care less if he cheats on her.
Trump can betray her all he wants. Jealousy is an estranged emotion that doesn't exist in Melania's world .
no_hypocrisy
(46,159 posts)I believe the "I Don't Care" message was directed at her putrid husband. And he told her to give the false narrative of the message was meant for "left wing media".
I know she's not respected but I also recognize a hostage situation.
JI7
(89,262 posts)piece of shit .
she married him knowing what a piece of shit he was and has been with him all these years and was spewing the racist birther shit.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)blue cat
(2,415 posts)Thats on her. I dont respect birthers, period.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)as long as she has hers, screw everyone else
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)She wore a Robert-Ripley-esque pith helmet on her recent trip to Africa.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)And I remember when Republicans lost their shit over Michelle Obama's (GASP!!) bare arms.
3catwoman3
(24,029 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 13, 2018, 06:34 PM - Edit history (1)
And other soft porn photos did not bother evangelical women.
One the other hand, I am quite sure any number of evangelical men got off on it.
fierywoman
(7,688 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)We all knew what kind of movies were shown there.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Imagine if a democratic candidate of any office much less president, had pics like that of his wife.
Do you think Fox 'news' and the evangelical right would give them a pass like Melanoma the right wing troll/first lady?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)I got reprimanded on fb and had my post removed when I put up the one of her full frontal wearing only her pearls and stilettos while, ahem, touching herself in the area which her orange sack of $hit husband brags about grabbing.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Yep. Search for "melania nude" in Google images (without parental controls) and that photo you had blocked, plus many more trashy photos, are revealed.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)I just had a post hidden in the other thread for mentioning her former profession, but yeah
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Maybe she had them redone while she was recovering from her "kidney ailment".
brush
(53,828 posts)about left-wing media like he does. She's no hostage. She has little sense and it shows in her clothing choices, or she has an obvious right wing agenda.
The "I don't care" jacket worn to the border with kids in cages and a pith helmet worn to Africashe's either a clueless idiot or she's sending dog whistle, right wing messages.
From this interview it's pretty evident that she's nothing but a dumb right winger like her faithless husband.
Siwsan
(26,288 posts)Considering where she was going, this just shows what a vacuous, self centered,clueless and over ripened teenager we have living in the White House.
Freethinker65
(10,034 posts)phylny
(8,385 posts)Cant you just support her initiatives?
Great answer, btw.
brush
(53,828 posts)we don't know what the hell they are.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Shows what little character or intelligence or compassion she truly has, but most already knew it when she with her husband lied and claimed President Obama wasn't born here knowing he was all along. They're liars , and show nothing but contempt for the truth on everything. Just another fraud exposed again. Her latest trip was nothing more than another phony act trying to claim something she doesn't do , care about anyone other than herself.
blm
(113,083 posts)Can you detail for us the work you put in to your initiative to get those children and their families reunited?
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)..
Fatemah2774
(245 posts)why you are married to the POS. As Alec Baldwin would say in Glengarry Glen Ross
YOU ARE A POS!
GusBob
(7,286 posts)She should take lessons in class from Mrs.Obama, hell, Laura Bush even
She might ask the ladies what it's like to have a husband who does fuck other women
Her initiatives, what a joke
DrDan
(20,411 posts)meant nothing.
Trying to chance the message . . . obviously.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)F her.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)2naSalit
(86,765 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)and doing zip zero to help women causes or children..
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)And she wants us to speak about her actions but the clothes she selects to wear are off limits for discussion because if we say something about her attire that she does not like then we are bullying her it and doesn't affect her because she came up with an anti-bullying campaign to let us know she has risen above our criticism because she is "be best" even though we still hurt her feelings when we comment on her actions because dressing yourself is not an action fool. Leave Melania alone!
JDC
(10,130 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)She's one of his Russian handlers
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)Like wearing the pith helmet, it was childish and unkind. Be best, Melanoma.
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)lost that last benefit of the doubt.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)No more.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)uponit7771
(90,356 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,818 posts)and is married to the ickiest man on the face of the earth. But I now realize that it's possible for her to be both unhappy - which she probably is - and a terrible person. She made her bed; she can lie in it.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)dlk
(11,575 posts)The I Really Dont Care... phrase was popular with Italian fascists during WWII. It was also a favorite of former Supreme Court Justice Scalia...
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)She really doesn't care. Someone in the WH thought it would be a good idea for her to visit a detention facility. She didn't want to go, and the jacket was her form of snarky protest. I don't see how it could be interpreted any other way.
This is a woman whose interests include money and plastic surgery. She is bound by a tight pre-nup to stay with mushroom man else she lose her life in a gilded cage. She's doing the absolute bare minimum as 1st lady and few would care if she never showed her cosmetically altered kidney surgery face again.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)CentralMass
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Talitha
(6,611 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)about expanding it. Melania goes all out with her passive aggressive contempt for the left. This will play well within the confines of Americans already on board, will not help expansion. The less mystery there is about her, the more she is tied to her husbands ugly dangerous policies and his blatant racism, and misogyny.
Keep talking Melania, you're doing GREAT! Oh did I miss where the interviewer told her not asked her, you're a birther?
Did he say that to her? That is what she is, a well dressed, photogenic, racist BIRTHER.
Owl
(3,643 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)she was barely noticed, except as arm candy to her famous husband. She received zero adverse publicity at all. Now that she's in the spotlight she believes that any bad press she receives is "bullying." Welcome to the real world, Melania.
livetohike
(22,157 posts)up with an explanation and it makes her look worse.
randr
(12,414 posts)She has hidden this well. The veil is off.
Me.
(35,454 posts)She's a birther...case closed
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)She is exactly what we thought she was. In fact, she's probably even worse. Sold her soul to the Orange Devil for his money.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Um, no. It's not obvious. Far from it.
unblock
(52,293 posts)Ah, it was a message to the media to focus on what she does, not what she wears. So she wore a message that said ignore this message.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Who in the media was criticizing her? What negatives things were they saying about her? Had she really done anything before she visited the child detention center. The only thing I can think of that she might have done before going to the child detention was to launch her "Be Best" and anti-cyberbullying initiatives. The only things I can remember people on the left saying about those initiatives was that she needed to take a look at her husband's twitter feed and start with getting him to stop cyberbullying people.
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)I think she was boring AF, and was happily ignoring her.
Now I feel it's my duty as an American to spend 10 minutes a day trashing her.
Thanks, Melania.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)You picked that one day, that one time, and never before and never again to make that statement.
Gotcha.