Friday 22 June 2018

First Lady doesn't care about what?

Melania Trump I would have thought is the sort of First Lady who would look carefully into her wardrobe each morning before deciding what to wear for a particular occasion. Going down to the border with Mexico to visit the children who were heard weeping for their mamas and papas in the ghastly caged accommodation povided by her husband's administration should have required a great deal of thought, wardrobe-wise. Definitely not a fancy dress, definitely no fancy pearls, and no sweeping expensive scarves. Something reasonably functional without being too drab. There must have a few choices. But out comes her favourite throw-on jacket, the one with the eye-catching words on the back: "I really don't care, do u?" If she had thought a little bit more she might have shrugged her shoulders and said to herself: "Nah, that's a bit tacky, especially where I'm going today." If she DID think about it, then she obviously decided that this message, whomever it was being aimed at, was exactly what she wanted to say. If that's the case, then the message must surely have been aimed at her husband, not the children. It wouldn't make sense if she was trying to say she didn't care about the children. The First Lady's helpful press office explained that there wasn't any hidden meaning. They were right. It wasn't hidden at all, it was blatant. So if the message was intended for Trump's eyes, did she get the most almighty boll...ing when she got back to the White House? Arriving at the children's detention camp, she said all the right things and I'm sure her personal dismay at the sound of those crying children played a part in persuading Trump to change his mind about separating them from their parents. So was the jacket message a cry for help from the First Lady? Why did she buy it in the first place? She must have thought: "One of these days I'm going to wear it and let the whole world know what I feel." Unfortunately she chose the wrong occasion.

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