Jimmy Kimmel probably had the best lines.
“Nobody thought the message was hidden. It was right there on her back.”
and even a better line "Is the president now Tweeting onto his wife's clothes?”
We can only speculate, at least for now, about why the First Lady wore this jacket.
Did she decide to wear it herself to troll the news cycle? This would mean she is a mean person. This would totally mean she is totally mean. We’d have to conclude she is a hypocrite and a horrible person. Nobody wants to pursue this narrative. If this is the answer we have to wonder why the most visible American fashionista would even be aware that this $40 jacket exists. She a woman who shamelessly wears jackets costing more than many Americans make in a year.
I think the most likely scenario is that somebody gave it to her and told her to wear it. Who could that be?
Who would be familiar with budget-priced women’s fashion and callous and evil enough to involve Melania Trump in his Hitlerian scheme?
My guess is that it was the presidential advisor I wrote about yesterday:
If she wore the jacket in 81-degree heat, without realizing the message it was sending contradicted the message she was trying to send, then she is not nearly as intelligent as her husband has claimed she is. If she thought that the message would be clearly understood to be aimed at the fake news and not what was in her heart about the children, she is the most clueless feckless First Lady in modern history.
I don’t want to believe the worst about Melania Trump. I want to believe she cares. I want to have empathy for her because she is like many, many thousands of emotionally abused women psychologically and situationally trapped in bad marriages.
I don’t see other explanations besides these (in the poll). What do you think?
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Addendum: Related Kos story: Melania Exposed