First lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, June 21, 2018, to travel to Texas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 First lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, June 21, 2018, to travel to Texas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that read "I really don't care, do u?" as she boarded a flight Thursday to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents. 
 
 The green, hooded military jacket from Zara had the words written graffiti-style on the back. 
 
 When asked what message the first lady's jacket intends to send, spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said: "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today's important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn't going to choose to focus on her wardrobe. " 
 
 Grisham underscored that message in a tweet with the hashtags #SheCares and #ItsJustAJacket. 
 
 Mrs. Trump changed into a pale yellow jacket before the plane landed in McAllen, Texas, for a visit to the Upbring New Hope Children's Center, which houses 55 migrant children. 
 
 Like it or not, Mrs. Trump's jacket had her trending on Twitter. One user borrowed an image of the back of the Zara jacket to promote groups working on behalf of immigrant children. 
 
 Zara, a Spanish-based company with a large presence in the United States and around the world, had no comment on the uproar. The jacket belongs to the company's spring-summer 2016 season. 
 
 The youthful jacket sharply contrasts with the first lady's typically bold, foreign-flavored wardrobe. In public appearances, the first lady has worn designs by Dolce & Gabbana, Del Pozo, Christian Dior, Emilio Pucci, Givenchy and Valentino, often with daringly high Christian Louboutin heels. 
 
 It's not the first time the first lady's fashion choices have caused a stir. 
 
 Last August, a pair of Mrs. Trump's signature spike heels earned her a round of bafflement as she boarded Air Force One bound for Texas to tour devastation after Hurricane Harvey. She had changed into white sneakers by the time she and the president landed. 
 
 At one of the 2016 presidential debates, Mrs. Trump showed up in a bright pink silk blouse with a large bow at the neck, long known as a "pussy bow blouse." That was just days after reports surfaced that her husband had made lewd remarks years earlier about grabbing women by the genitals. 
 
 On the other side of the political aisle, former first lady Michelle Obama routinely caught grief from some critics for going sleeveless. Her husband, President Barack Obama, was the talk of a 24-hour news cycle when he donned a tan suit in 2014 for a media briefing. ||||| While boarding a flight Thursday morning for a surprise visit to immigrant child detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border, First Lady Melania Trump was spotted wearing a jacket emblazoned with the phrase “I DON’T REALLY CARE DO U?” on its back. The attire inevitably garnered outrage online, especially considering the casually indifferent tone of the jacket when juxtaposed with the potentially permanent separation of young children, including toddlers, from their parents upon being detained at the border. “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message,” Melania’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. (She is technically correct: the message wasn’t hidden; it was printed in bold white font across the entire back.) “After today's important visit to Texas, I hope this isn't what the media is going to choose to focus on.” Hours later, President Trump himself tweeted on the matter: “‘I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?’ written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”
– ABC News on Friday night aired what it says is Melania Trump's "first extensive sit-down interview since becoming first lady." It had already released excerpts where she discussed her husband's alleged infidelity, her distrust of some White House staffers, and her thoughts on the #MeToo movement. One of the portions of the full interview (see video here) garnering attention concerns the jacket she wore in June when traveling to the US-Mexico border; it read, "I really don't care, do U?" "Let's talk about the jacket," Tom Llamas began, asking her why she wore it. "It's obvious I didn't wear the jacket for the children," she answered. "I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane. And it was for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticizing me. And I wanna show them that I don't care. You could criticize whatever you wanna say, but it will not stop me to do what I feel is right." Llamas pressed her: "Your office had to release a statement during this time saying the jacket is just a jacket. So you were sending a message with the jacket?" Melania replied, "It ... it was kind of a message, yes. I would prefer that they would focus on what I do and on my initiatives than what I wear." Her answer echoes President Trump's explanation of the jacket at the time.