{"id":1078,"date":"2018-06-21T21:26:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2018-06-21T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:26:31","slug":"melania-trump-agent-of-coat-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melania Trump\u2019s excursion in a Zara jacket did not send a hidden message. It was there for all to see.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0<\/span>Vanessa Friedman\u00a0 June 21, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Melania Trump back at the White House after her trip to visit immigrant children at a shelter in Texas.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Andrew Harnik\/Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cI REALLY DON\u2019T CARE, DO U?\u201d<\/p>\n

When the first lady, Melania Trump,\u00a0on a surprise humanitarian visit to a children\u2019s shelter in Texas<\/a>, strode onto her airplane in an olive green Zara army jacket with those words scrawled in faux white graffiti on the back, it sent the watching world into what might be called, with some understatement, a meltdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cInsensitive,\u201d \u201cheartless\u201d and \u201cunthinking\u201d were some of the words hurled through the digisphere about the choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a jacket,\u201d her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement to reporters. \u201cThere was no hidden message.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s right, of course. It wasn\u2019t hidden. It was literally written on the first lady\u2019s back. The question is: Who was the intended audience?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n