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I think I’ll paraphrase a message that appeared on the back of first lady Melania Trump’s jacket … so bear with me.<\/p>\n

I really don’t care<\/em> about what it said.<\/p>\n

What I do<\/em> care about is that the first lady chose to wear this particular jacket while she was heading toward South Texas to tour a migrant camp that houses children who had been taken from their parents. The message on the back of the jacket read: “I really don’t care. Do U?”<\/em><\/p>\n

I also care about the decidedly mixed message from Donald J. Trump’s self-proclaimed “fine-tuned machine” that runs the executive branch of government. Melania Trump’s staff said the first lady never intended to deliver a message with the jacket. Then the president himself tweeted something that said, yep, she did intend to deliver a message, which was aimed at what he calls “fake news.”<\/p>\n

Message or no message? Which is it?<\/p>\n

How about we hear from the first lady herself?<\/p>\n

I am acutely aware that nothing gets done spontaneously at this level of public appearance planning. These events almost always are tightly scripted affairs. So, when the first lady is seen boarding a plane en route to South Texas wearing a jacket that sends a troubling message about whether she cares about the kids, well, then we have a problem.<\/p>\n

The message itself isn’t all that weird. It’s the context<\/em> of the first lady of the United States deciding to wear it while preparing to represent the president at an event that has gripped the nation by its throat.<\/p>\n

If it is true — and that’s an iffy prospect, at best — that, according to the president, the first lady’s visit to McAllen was “100 percent” her call, then we need to hear directly from her.<\/p>\n

Was she sending a “message,” or was it just an astonishingly sloppy display of ignorance about how the “optics” would play?<\/p>\n

Talk to us, Mme. First Lady.<\/p>\n\n

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I think I’ll paraphrase a message that appeared on the back of first lady Melania Trump’s jacket … so bear with me. I really don’t care about what it said. What I do care about is that the first lady chose to wear this particular jacket while she was heading toward South Texas to tour … Continue reading ‘The Jacket’ shrouds first lady’s actual mission<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2240,2244,6075],"class_list":["post-30456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-melania-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30457,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456\/revisions\/30457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}