Despite previously denying there’s a political agenda behind her fashion choices, America’s First Lady Melania Trump has now admitted the opposite of her most controversial look to date: the ‘I really don’t care, do you?’ Zara jacket she wore while visiting a detention centre for migrant children, following thousands being separated from their parents at the US border due to Trump’s zero-tolerance stance towards illegal immigration.
At the time, Melania addressed the backlash by denying her jacket had anything to do with visiting children at the border with her communications chief insisting that it was “just a jacket.”
However, four months down the track and the First Lady has changed her tune, saying in an interview with ABC News that the jacket, was “kind of a message, yes.”
“It’s obvious I didn’t wear that jacket for the children, I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane,” she said over the weekend. “It was for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them that I don’t care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what feels right.”
“I often asking myself, if I had not worn that jacket, if I will have so much media coverage,” she said, adding, “I would prefer they would focus on what I do and on my initiatives that what I wear.”
Naturally, many were quick to point out that the occasion probably wasn’t the perfect time to be sending a message.
