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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo me, it is crystal clear (Melania's jacket)
I really don't get so much speculation about the meaning of the jacket.
First of all, those who say she didn't notice or is "tone deaf", seriously?. There is nothing spontaneous or casual; about those people, and for Melania in particular, everything about her down to the last hair is perfectly arranged.
A message for him? No, the timing isn't right.
Is is this simple. The FLOTUS boards a plane to visit internment camps for little Hispanic kids wearing a jacket that says, "I really don't care, do U?"
The meaning is clear. Crystal clear. trump is behind this, and she is complicit.
raging moderate
(4,319 posts)Or did she only visit their jailers? Did she actually go back into the living areas, look around, and observe and talk to the incarcerated children? Or did she stage a photo op in an outer office area?
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Ezior
(505 posts)So that means she visited the children.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,141 posts)The pictures are bad. Its about them potentially losing votes in November. Those images are bad for them. Lets send Melanie to do some clean up work to appease those housewives and mothers that are horrified. At the same time, send a message to our base that we really don't care. I don't think its a mistake. All by design and she's just as complicit. Notice that she did not insist to go to a center with young kids? She went to one with older kids with mostly " unaccompanied minors" - She's still a piece of shit in my book
johnp3907
(3,737 posts)Our teams got to be disciplined and just ignore this.
holka22
(4 posts)She did not want to be send on this photo op. Hot weather, cheap jacket- I think she did it so her husband would not be able to use her trip for his tweets and self promotion. She sabotaged him.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)She hates the job.
And I don't think she would come up with this by herself. His dirty fingerptints are all over the place on this
Cha
(298,139 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)I'm SURE HE NEVER AGREES WITH HER (unless Ivanka goes along with it)....I think the Jacket was for the
DOTARD.......
Cha
(298,139 posts)Cha
(298,139 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)this is another "dog whistle" the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge they have been using since day one.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Cha
(298,139 posts)gibraltar72
(7,522 posts)She picks her spots to get her shots in. Many examples I won't cite here but I think she'd willingly burn him to the fucking ground.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)explanation is the right one.
I have no doubt he was behind this.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)She's just a owned pet, besides women Trump thinks are worthy of him sexually spending time with, none of the women matter. She was ordered to do it, done.
Great mother.
Sprite
(77 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 21, 2018, 06:29 PM - Edit history (1)
This was planned to simply create more chaos. They will do anything to distract us and the media from the Russian probe and all the other horrible things this administration is doing.
0rganism
(23,996 posts)the jacket thing? it's absolutely indefensible, completely deplorable, unimaginably uncivil, and overtly racist. it's also (as i think you imply) a well-planned chunk of red meat to the base.
so the news media has to cover this all somehow, right? we start off with FLOTUS visiting detainees, and then she shows up in this cartoonishly evil coat. so now the media has to continue to fixate on the messaging: what does she mean? this can't really be as asshole as it looks, right? meanwhile there is some footage delivered of her palling around with the child prisoners in an obviously arranged PR setting, so that can be played as part of the B-reel during ongoing discussion of The Jacket. what other things go in the B-reel for this story? perhaps scenes from the latest Trump rally in Duluth? declaration of the Space Force? Trump's recent round-table handjob roundup?
what are we not supposed to look at? that the EO doesn't really fix anything? that the GOP congress is preparing to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid to offset taxcuts for m/billionaires? (having Rep. Ryan on this morning blabbing about various legislation was only going to draw attention to that eventually if it went on long enough, very important for them to tamp it down as soon as possible.)
i think Trump's bunch is stacking the news cycle with tons of his nutty & evil bullshit antics intentionally. we have 24/7 news channels, but they present the same 1/2+ hour of headline news every hour, leaving at most only half the time to cover nutty & evil bullshit from non-Trump sources on the backside of the hour. Trump himself becomes the lightning rod, while everyone else in the GOP gets off free to do whatever they like with minimal news coverage. plus the entire Republican party is trying to rationalize how Trump is a normal president getting horribly mistreated by the deep-state press, so these tales of sadness, stupidity, and/or treason do no damage to his political prospects; so, the entire party leadership can run amok giving themselves everything they ever wanted with zero critical coverage as it happens. seems to be working.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The law of karma keeps notes
0rganism
(23,996 posts)in particular, Karma kicking in about 5.5 months from now would be very helpful
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and we will kick in and kick ass in Movember.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)I believe you are correct.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,428 posts)splat
(2,294 posts)I don't know how it happened or what it means, but she wore it, picked it, said it.
I'd like to think she's subverting him.
tavernier
(12,431 posts)Not even close to his style of writing.
Something smells like yesterdays fish.
LuckyLib
(6,823 posts)has just been underscored a thousand times. Nobody saw that jacket and pulled her aside?
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Absolutely she did it it on purpose. She is part of that Corporation and has contempt for those outside the walls. She is as vile as the rest of them.
rzemanfl
(29,589 posts)since she entered this country illegally. Even the handcuffs she wore naked cost more than that.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,798 posts)She signed on for big shopping trips and luxe living - not this politics crap.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Ivana! He would beat her up is she tried to pull a stunt like that behind his back
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Crystal Clear, These people are sick!
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)It's ugly and contemptible. She doesn't speak for me or my family.
jrthin
(4,843 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)This damn bitch is just as evil as the rest. This jacket proves that to me.
Would any other first ladies have worn that ?!? Hell no!
Would any decent mothers and grandmothers who want to storm those places and rescue those babies, children have worn that?!? Hell No!
There is no doubt about her to me now.
livetohike
(22,172 posts)immature, ignorant and deplorable.
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)about this she truly DOESN'T CARE. So fuck outta here Melania. No matter what the motive...it has made HER LOOK VERY BAD.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I think we can all agree that Melania Trump is unlikely to wear a $39 jacket (especially one obviously designed for teens-- Zara is the label-- cute stuff, not very expensive).
If she chose to have it and wear it, yes, of course she's sending a message. She wouldn't be caught dead in anything but couture ordinarily, I'm sure.
I think "I don't care" is pretty much the motto of that administration. And she doesn't care either. She occasionally stirs herself to do some first lady thing, then goes back in her hole. I bet she charges him $10K every time she has to emerge and be his wife. "Sure, I'll go to see the little kids in the shelter. But remember, I get paid double if I have to take a flight. Cough it up, $20K, and I only take cash."
JCMach1
(27,591 posts)and yes, this is an extension of that...
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)RussBLib
(9,064 posts)...about all those poor kids being separated from their parents.
Message received.