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Melania Trump wears jacket with slogan “I don’t really care do u?” to visit a migrant child detention centre


By Erin Lindsay
22nd Jun 2018

Image: Shutterstock/Zara via Forbes

Melania Trump wears jacket with slogan “I don’t really care do u?” to visit a migrant child detention centre

First Lady Melania Trump has caused controversy by wearing a jacket with the words “I don’t really care do u?” across its back on a visit to a migrant child detention centre in Texas.

Mrs Trump was seen wearing the $39 Zara jacket while boarding a plane to Texas. The trip was to visit a detention centre which is housing many children who have been separated from their families at the U.S Border. While she was not seen to be wearing the jacket when disembarking in Texas, she did wear the jacket again when she returned to Washington.

A spokeswoman for Mrs Trump has said that “there was no hidden message” in her choice of jacket, while her husband, U.S President Donald Trump, tweeted that the jacket was referring to “the fake news media”:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1009916650622251009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-us-canada-44570688

Mrs Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Gresham also took to Twitter to defend the First Lady, using the hashtag #ItsJustAJacket to reinforce her point:

The choice of clothing was an odd move for Melania Trump, given that she has a tendency to wear exclusively high-end designer clothes when she appears in public, including Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino. The fact that she had chosen this jacket, a relatively cheap piece from high-street store Zara with a large slogan, to wear on a trip to visit separated migrant children, raised some questions with critics of Mrs Trump.

While the First Lady herself has not commented on the controversy, many have voiced their outrage on social media: