“Melania’s I Really Don’t Care Do U? Coat Meant As F**k You To Ivanka”

Isn’t this nice to know? We all thought at the time that the awful message on the green pea coat, just as Lady Melania flew down to visit kids in cages, was somehow meant as an FU to the kids. That’s what created an uproar and furor of bad press. Then Donald Trump chimed in that it was meant as a put down of the “Fake News.” But now, a new book about First Ladies reveals that all this time the pea coat was meant to tell her daughter-in-law to get screwed. Okay. Sounds pretty much on point for this Addams Family, Munsters-esque klan. Vanity Fair:

In American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, From Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden, New York Times reporter Katie Rogers reveals, per the New York Post, that Melania “spent her four years in the White House waging a war against Ivanka Trump,” with the duo engaged in an “internal power struggle” over the job of first lady, which the first daughter had attempted to fill when her stepmother delayed her move to the White House in 2017.

Ivanka, Rogers reports, wanted to reorient the East Wing so that it served “the entire first family, not just the first lady,” a desire that chapped Melania’s hide and was not helped by the fact that Donald Trump told reporters that Ivanka would be “helping [Melania] and working with her.“

(“She was aware that her husband had suggested that his eldest daughter would be helping to share the responsibilities of being first lady, and this was not a development that pleased her,” Rogers writes.)

So by the time Melania made the trip down to McAllen, Texas, in 2018, she was apparently ready to tell Ivanka where she could go, through fashion.

According to former administration officials, Melania was sending a message to her stepdaughter when she wore her “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” jacket ahead of her June 2018 visit to see detained migrant children at the southern border.

The pair “were locked in a quiet competition for press coverage” at the time, Rogers reported.

As New York magazine notes, “It’s unclear why anyone would look at a photo of the first lady wearing a jacket with a rude phrase scrawled across the back and think, Wow, she really put Ivanka in her place!” But who knows! Perhaps Ivanka was chilled to the core.

That makes complete sense, does it not? Ivanka wanted all the publicity and Melania was go to hell if she would get it. It is also possible, and I’m just speculating here, that maybe Ivanka wanted to play missionary, Florence Nightingale, something of the sort and make the trek to Texas herself. And of course Melania was not going to be upstaged.

However, it does seem a bit odd that Melania chose to say fung goo in quite that manner, which was so easily misinterpreted to mean something else. But two possibilities here: Melania is so dense that she didn’t know what the obvious interpretation of that coat would be (which I must say, I find hard to believe) or the FU was not meant for Ivanka solely, but for the entire situation: For Ivanka, Donald, the whole family, the White House, the presidency and last of all, the yous and mes. We could all, collectively, get fucked.

And that actually makes perfect sense coming from Melania. She never wanted to be there. She had lawyers coming to visit her in the White House, so she could protect her interests and reportedly she had renegotiated her pre-nuptial agreement prior to moving in.

And why did Melania hate Ivanka so much? I guess you’d have to buy the book to find out, but my guess is that Ivanka (and everybody else) realized from the get go what a disaster Melania would be as First Lady. So Ivanka wanted to basically take over the role and basically she did — but whose fault was that? Melania couldn’t bring herself to Washington because she was too busy with whatever, and life does go on. Every other First Family in history has figured out a way to get to the White House on January 20, save her.

She was there for the swearing in, yes, but went back to New York and didn’t move in until the summer. And you well remember how utterly miserable Melania looked when they sat down at the banquet all, that. This was not turf Melania was comfortable on. Ivana probably could have pulled it off, she had some savvy and Marla would have been really good, actually. She was a professional actress, I’m sure she would have done well. But Melania got the part and I’m sure that Ivanka probably cringed more than anybody else.

Ivanka, you may remember, wore a stunning white pantsuit on Inauguration Day. She wanted her share of photographs and interviews. She was all dressed up to be Inauguration Barbie and then the second step-mother, the one who graced the covers of men’s magazines, came and hogged all the attention.

Just one more tawdy tale of the tackiest trash with cash family to ever enter the White House, let alone reside there.

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