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She wore it when she departed and returned to Washington and changed into a yellow jacket when visiting the children in Texas. Sounds like she’s sending a message to the pathetic Washington media rather than the kids at the border.
She wore it when she departed and returned to Washington and changed into a yellow jacket when visiting the children in Texas. Sounds like she’s sending a message to the pathetic Washington media rather than the kids at the border.
If that's the case, it was a poor way to send a message.
Maybe...she can pen a special op-ed detailing her concerns about the media's treatment of her and her family instead? Nah. That would require a level of maturity and discretion this administration is sorely lacking.
Oh noes the optics! Stop the presses! The sky is falling! Someone wore something that I have to dig long and hard to find offense in!
Oh noes anything but the optics!
Let me put on some tin foil to drum up a conspiracy in the name of social justice.
One of my employees has dread locks. Why would I have problems with dread locks?
Most of them have tattoos too. Why would I have an issue with tattoos?
Physical appearance doesn't dictate skill nor productivity.
Wait a second... don't you guys defend to the death the 1st amendment and freedom of speech/expression? Walking back on that stance now on the basis of optics? LOL
Absolutely. But we are responsible for our speech/expression. Melania now owns hers, I REALLY DON'T CARE. After her spox said there was no messaging in the jacket, her husband tweets that there was. This is not going away until Melania explains it. She herself has sullied her own reputation....only she can set the record straight. Yet....crickets.
She wore it when she departed and returned to Washington and changed into a yellow jacket when visiting the children in Texas. Sounds like she’s sending a message to the pathetic Washington media rather than the kids at the border.
What's funny to me is that her spokesperson said it was "just a coat" and her Husband (You know, the POTUS) said it was a message to the media.
I suspect they are both lies, but you'd think such an accomplished liar as POTUS would at least be experienced enough to coordinate his lies with others before going public with them, but no.
The funny thing is that HE DOES NOT CARE. He doesn't care if you believe his lies or not, because he's going to stick with them until people give up, and he'll get away with it.
But let's not try to pretend that it was a message to the media. My guess is that she (all of them) just didn't think about it, and that's sad. My second guess is that it's a message to her pig of a husband, saying she doesn't care that he wants to use these innocent kids as pawns for his sick, fascist takeover, she's going to do what's right anyway, and stick up for the kids. (I'll give her this, she's got a record of not giving any F's about what POTUS thinks, and speaking her mind anyway.)
But drop the "it was a message to the press" schtick. That was Trump's feeble attempt at dodging yet another embarrassment from his own camp.
It is not just an "article of clothing", its the message the admin is sending. Isn't it obvious? Without the message the jacket would be meaningless.
The idea that she didn't wear it at the center directly because she didn't mean what the hurtful message on the back was is totally oblivious to the fact that the children themselves have no power to help/hurt Melania as Trump's messenger...
They can't vote, they have no money---they are just the excuse to wear the jacket in the first place-
And that callous disregard and selfishness really shows how little POTUS/FLOTUS (and their base) care about the people involved in this one-ups-man-ship game of power and give-me-my wall tantrum...
Melania has known about the world of fashion since before she same to the USA---she was involved in design in her home country--and she herself is European and thus MORE rather than less likely to know the history of the "house of Zara", plus she lived in NYC the epicenter for fashion in America for decades---
She can't claim she didn't know the message could prove devisive and derisive to those who saw it--
And the world saw it once it made the "news"
Wearing it was not a protest of "faux news"
Wearing it just created a tsunami of faux news and turned attention away from the entire purpose of the trip
Her communications director is a snipe and knew exactly how to set the cat among the pigeons--
And the media in this case played the pigeon perfectly...
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