Here is the infamous jacket that Melania Trump trolled the media with to distract them from the fact that she actually wasn’t visiting a detention center, but rather Upbring New Hope Children’s Shelter, where only 6 of the kids had been separated from their parents by U.S. officials, according to a senior administration official.
The official line is that the detention center was flooded, but locals report that they knew it was flooded yesterday, so it’s odd on a trip to see children who have been traumatized by her husband’s policy of separating children from their parents that she would take all of the photos at a shelter that houses mostly children who arrived as unaccompanied minors, according to a “senior administration official” in a pool report sent to PoliticusUSA.
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump walks from her to her motorcade wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” on the back as she returns to Washington from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border area in Texas, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque?
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., prior to departing for Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump listens during a roundtable meeting with U.S. Health and Human Services Secreatry Alex Azar and local officials and the staff at the Lutheran Social Services of the South “Upbring New Hope Children’s Center” near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump speaks during a roundtable meeting with U.S. Health and Human Services Secreatry Alex Azar (L) and local officials and the staff at the Lutheran Social Services of the South “Upbring New Hope Children’s Center” near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump listens during a roundtable meeting at the Lutheran Social Services of the South “Upbring New Hope Children’s Center” near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump listens during a roundtable meeting at the Lutheran Social Services of the South “Upbring New Hope Children’s Center” near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump visits the Lutheran Social Services of the South “Upbring New Hope Children’s Center” as she visits the U.S.-Mexico border area in McAllen Texas, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar (L) listen during a roundtable meeting at the Lutheran Social Services of the South “Upbring New Hope Children’s Center” near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump walks from her to her motorcade wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” on the back as she returns to Washington from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border area in Texas, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque?
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump is greeted on the tarmac by a U.S. Air Force officer as the first lady returns to Washington wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” after a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border area in Texas, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque?
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump boards her plane wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” on the back as she departs to visit the U.S.-Mexico border area in Texas from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump clibs into her motorcade vehicle wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” on the back as she returns to Washington from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border area in Texas at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque?
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- U.S. first lady Melania Trump walks from her airplane to her motorcade wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” on the back as she returns to Washington from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border area in Texas at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The visit to the shelter provided the press and the propaganda outlets plenty of pretty pictures to use to sell the idea that “liberals” are blowing this crisis out of proportion and these kids are actually fine. That is false. These images are not of a detention center. The press is not being allowed to photograph detention centers.
The jacket Melania wore to troll the press worked, and Fox News is pretending that it’s awful that everyone is focused on her jacket instead of her good work. The jacket also sent Trump’s base the real message that Melania and her husband do not care, as there is no other feasible reason the woman who wears designer clothes would be caught in a Zara jacket that cost under $40.00 that she just so happened to wear when photographs would be taken from behind.
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First lady Melania Trump poses with local police officers at the McAllen airport as she prepares to depart after a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border area in McAllen Texas. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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