Everyone remembers. It is impossible to forget. No one should want to forget because we care.
During a period when Trump and the White House were being eviscerated for their policies on the border, someone (We are sure it wasn’t Melania) came up with the idea that Melania could visit the border and soften things up.
First of all, it was such an obvious stunt that it wouldn’t have worked under any setting. Again, it was at a point when some MAGAs were actually mad, including some Republicans in Congress. But Melania was not, and never will be, known for her warmth and charm. It felt like Melania “went out” on trips to be the model she always wanted to be.
So when the model wore “The Jacket” expressing her own feelings about… the trip. The jacket reflected her real feelings about the kids on the border, immigrants, like her, only brown. She later said that it was about the media, that she didn’t care about the media’s criticism. Because of course, she did. Melania is a Trump and the media is responsible for any troubles. Everyone with two neurons called bullshit. She didn’t wear that jacket going to the helicopter and off to Mar-a-Lago. She wore it going to visit brown kids.
She didn’t give a fffff.
The first lady seemed to be trolling Melania Trump, who in 2018 wore a jacket that said “I really don’t care, do u?” when she traveled to the US border in Texas to visit children separated from their families, during outcry about Trump admin policies. pic.twitter.com/Jo7xh2zWKn [1]
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 10, 2021 [2]
But Dr. Jill Biden cares about kids and young adults. She cares enough to have earned a doctorate and then started teaching teachers how to connect with the kids. Kids need care. They need their parents’ love. They need stable and good friends. A stable environment that they can trust to not hurt them. And they need mentors and teachers from outside the home. They need a connection with adults who do care, with adults that love helping these kids
We are positive enough to write that it was for those reasons, and surely more, that Jill Biden expressed her love and care for the world, with a jacket back that simply said “Love.” How perfect. America is back, or at least taking the steps.
Plus, as we say all the time, Jill is just so ridiculously beautiful it’s almost a joke.
Anyway:
“Well, I think that we're bringing love from America,” @FLOTUS [3] told me when I asked what her “LOVE message meant. “I think that this is a global conference and we're trying to bring unity across the globe and I think that's important right now that you have a sense of unity.” pic.twitter.com/cDw3vOzpnR [4]
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 10, 2021 [5]
And then the contrast, just so ugly and perfectly symbolic. Like a good Trump, Melania made it clear that Melania cares and loves Melania.
The first lady seemed to be trolling Melania Trump, who in 2018 wore a jacket that said “I really don’t care, do u?” when she traveled to the US border in Texas to visit children separated from their families, during outcry about Trump admin policies. pic.twitter.com/Jo7xh2zWKn [1]
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 10, 2021 [2]
This country deserves leaders like Jill – who is a leader in her own right, without regard to her husband – who want to celebrate what’s best in the world. She cares.
Isn’t it wonderful?
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Peace
Jason Miciak
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