Why Did Melania Trump Wear Controversial ‘I Really Don’t Care’ Jacket?

As Melania Trump’s jacket has made international headlines, was the odd choice of outerwear a message to the media or simply a fashion faux pas? The first lady wore the coat Thursday as she departed Washington to visit children detained and separated from their parents at the border, leaving TV personalities and the internet scratching their heads. Major news outlets all seemed perplexed by the $39 military jacket from Zara, with “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back.

Was it a message to the media

or simply a fashion faux pas?

First Lady Melania's
choice to wear a jacket

emblazoned with the slogan:
I really don't care, do you?

On a trip to visit children
separated from their parents

has everyone scratching
their heads today.

It's mind boggling.

She knows how
powerful fashion is.

It's a hundred degrees.

It's 95% humidity in Texas.

There is no scenario
where you need

to be putting on a jacket.

I do not, I literally
thought it was a joke.

But why on earth did she wear it?

Mary Jordan is national
correspondent

for the Washington Post.

People are asking
the question though,

what were they thinking?

They knew they were gonna
get a negative response.

It's unclear what
the First Lady thought

the response would be
but you know, of course,

people, well,
Secret Service saw it.

You know, her staff.

Didn't someone warn her?

Today, Melania posted
the first video

of her visiting the children.

She didn't mention
that jacket

but did say that meeting them
was very touching.