Melania Trump boards plane to meet immigrants wearing 'I really don't care' jacket
Good fucking lord, Melania.
The first lady made a surprise visit to McAllen, Texas, on Thursday to visit shelters and facilities for immigrant children at the U.S. border. Pre-arrival, however, she did something so deeply bizarre that it would probably get cut from a movie script for being "too unrealistic."
Here, fellow void-screamers, is the choice Melania made. Before Melania boarded her plane to an epicenter of the U.S. immigration crisis, she chose to put on a jacket that reads, in enormous letters: "I really don't care, do u?"
As the Daily Mail reported, the jacket is from Zara, it's sold out, it costs $39, blah blah blah, who cares. That doesn't matter.
(The Mail, bless their hearts, also included a classic "get the look" section in their article; however, we would caution against "getting the look" under these particular circumstances.)
The first lady's spokesperson did issue a comment saying "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message." But what matters here is the implication, accidental or not, that First Lady Melania Trump "really [doesn't] care" about what she's doing today -- getting a firsthand look at the horrific and inhumane realities for children and families at the border. It's callous, it's gross, and it's extremely bad optics.
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On the other hand, what else can we expect from this goat rodeo of an administration?
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Maybe you want to give Melania the benefit of the doubt right now. Maybe, you think, she didn't check the back of the jacket before she put it on. Maybe she thought she was just wearing a nice, green military jacket.
Maybe! I guess that could be true. But I really don't care... do u?
Update: Meanwhile, here's Trump's extremely bad take:
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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.
