Melania Trump claims 2018 "I don’t care" jacket was directed at media , not linked to migrants

Former First Lady of the US Melania Trump has once again addressed her debatable “I really don’t care, do u?” jacket in her coming

memoir

, revealing it was meant as a “discreet yet impactful” message to the media, not related to her visit to a

migrant detention

centre, according to the New York Post.
Melania, wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, wore the Zara jacket in 2018 during a trip to the

US-Mexico border

, sparking outrage and widespread speculation about its intended meaning.

Many assumed the message was tied to the plight of migrant children.
However, in an excerpt from her memoir reported by '

The Guardian

', Melania insists the jacket was aimed at the media, claiming, "It’s a message for the media... to let them know I was unconcerned with their opinions of me.” According to her, she was advised by her then-press secretary,

Stephanie Grisham

, to avoid publicly explaining this intent. “I disagreed with her insistence that I couldn’t say that,” Melania wrote, adding that Grisham instead told a CNN reporter the jacket was merely a “fashion choice with no underlying message.”
Melania claims the media’s focus on the $39 jacket overshadowed the pressing issues of the time, such as the welfare of children at the border and a significant policy change. She called the media’s reaction “irresponsible behaviour.”
Grisham, who resigned in 2021 and has since become a vocal critic of the Trumps. She alleged the idea to wear the jacket came from Donald Trump himself, who said: “You just tell them you were talking to the f–king press.”