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Melania Trump’s Spox: ‘No Hidden Message’ in ‘I Really Don’t Care Do U?’ Jacket

The first lady wore the unfortunate jacket while leaving to visit immigrant children in border detention facilities.

While boarding a flight Thursday morning for a surprise visit to immigrant child detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border, First Lady Melania Trump was spotted wearing a jacket emblazoned with the phrase “I DON’T REALLY CARE DO U?” on its back. The attire inevitably garnered outrage online, especially considering the casually indifferent tone of the jacket when juxtaposed with the potentially permanent separation of young children, including toddlers, from their parents upon being detained at the border. “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message,” Melania’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. (She is technically correct: the message wasn’t hidden; it was printed in bold white font across the entire back.) “After today's important visit to Texas, I hope this isn't what the media is going to choose to focus on.” Hours later, President Trump himself tweeted on the matter: “‘I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?’ written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”