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Raven

(13,891 posts)
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 10:02 AM Aug 2019

Melania's Jacket....

Think about that jacket and its message, "I really don't care, do U?", worn on a trip with her husband to the Texas/Mexico border to visit detained children a little over a year ago. I know that hindsight is 20/20 vision, but I think that jacket intentionally and directly telegraphed permission and encouragement to every white supremacist in this country to go to war on latinos and other people of color.

At the time, there was great speculation about why the First Lady would wear a jacket like that on a warm day to visit immigrant children at our border. Some chalked it up to Melania just being stupid and tone deaf, some said she was needling her husband and others (especially in the WH) said it was a jab at the fake news media.

No one, as far as I know said...this is a call to arms, this is your President telling his rabid followers that it's ok to take some of these subhumans out, this is your President telling you directly through his wife that he doesn't care what you do.

Hindsight is 20/20 vision. Think about that jacket today.

Did Donald come up with the jacket idea himself? No. I don't think he's smart enough or subtle enough for that. I think Miller is. I think Bannon is. Put the message on the back of the stupid, immigrant, ex-porn star wife and most people will dismiss it as a terrible gaffe. The people that Miller and Bannon want to reach will get it immediately.

Hindsight is 20/20 vision. They're going to put the flags back at fill staff on 8/8. Don't tell me that's a mistake.

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tanyev

(42,559 posts)
1. The only disagreement I have with is whether Donald could have come up with the jacket idea.
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 10:08 AM
Aug 2019

A man who has been documented as spending hours obsessing over carpet and furnishing selections while his businesses were going bankrupt or the colors and interior design for the new presidential plane is completely capable of coming up with the jacket idea.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
8. +1
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 10:24 AM
Aug 2019

She's as awful as he is. I don't give her any quarter. I also don't believe that she "has" to stay with him because of a prenup or whatever. She stays with him because she's as shallow and vapid as he is. It's all about the money and lifestyle.

demmiblue

(36,855 posts)
5. The choice of attire is all on Melania.
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 10:14 AM
Aug 2019

From what I understand, she is very deliberative when it comes to her fashion choices.

Raven

(13,891 posts)
7. I'm sure she is but someone put her in that jacket, on that warm day, to visit immigrant children.
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 10:21 AM
Aug 2019

Not a fashion mistake.

murielm99

(30,741 posts)
10. When everyone was starting to wear
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 10:25 AM
Aug 2019

pink pussy hats and pink shirts that said, "Persist and Resist," she showed up in some pink blouse that I am sure was a mockery of our statements. Someone knows what they are doing.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
12. I resent having her
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 10:43 AM
Aug 2019

and her parents living at taxpayer expense. A former escort/nude model has no place in the WH. Franklin Graham claims "She is the classiest first lady EVER" so that tells where his sense of "class" lies. Unless of course Vlad has some compromat on ol' Franklin? Praising the class of a two bit whore is hardly a religious quality, is it?? Oh, Franklin remember the old adage "You can not turn a whore into a housewife" With Maleria it seems that one cannot turn her into a quality human being. She has her perfect mate in soulless, disgusting, low class, grifting, dumb ass Don the Con.

BigmanPigman

(51,597 posts)
14. I read and saw ads showing that the original jacket already existed
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 05:53 PM
Aug 2019

and was for sale. Melanie saw it, bought it and CHOSE to wear it. Even if she didn't design it herself, she still is guilty of choosing to promote its message. Maybe tRumps's sociopath behavior is contagious.

The RacistRapist is a SOCIOPATH...they REALLY DON'T CARE. It isn't in their make-up.

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Personality of the Sociopath

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
15. The point is she KNOWS that everything she wears
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 06:01 PM
Aug 2019

will be scrutinized by the press. We are constantly reading about who designed her outfit/her shoes/her jewelry/anything she wears. (The fashion mags, alone, are all over this stuff.)

She is cognizant that anything she wears is her making a statement. I refuse to believe that she didn't know what was written on her back.

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