Melania Trump flew to Texas on Thursday to meet migrant children who had been separated from their parents, and perhaps also to save face for the White House—to show that her husband, who ultimately is responsible for the children’s separation, does care about their fate. “I’d also like to ask you how I can help these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible,” she told staff at the Upbring New Hope Children’s Center. To the kids themselves, she said, “Good luck.”

Later, though, The Daily Mail revealed that while boarding her flight to Texas, Trump had worn a military-style jacket with the words “I Don’t Care, Do U?” printed on the back. What did she mean by the jacket? “It’s a jacket,” her spokeswoman told reporters. “There was no hidden message.” President Donald Trump insisted there was one, tweeting that it “refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”

Which is to say, if the Texas trip was meant to humanize the Trumps and the administration’s policies, it failed. The first lady turned a humanitarian visit into a spectacle about herself, and in doing so, she put the lie to the purpose of her trip.

Trump’s immigration policy remains as ugly as ever, despite his latest efforts to prove otherwise. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order that ends family separation at the border, and on Thursday a Customs and Border Patrol official told The Washington Post that the government would cease its “zero-tolerance policy” of prosecuting all adult migrants who are caught after crossing the border illegally, and instead would only prosecute adults without children. But a Department of Justice official immediately disputed the CBP official’s claim, saying “zero tolerance policy is still in effect.” And later on Thursday, a Pentagon official said that 20,000 migrant children will be housed on military bases starting as early as July.

Amid this chaos and confusion, it’s nonetheless clear that while families might not be separated anymore, they will be detained together indefinitely. (It takes hundreds of days to adjudicate immigration cases.) It’s also clear there’s no government plan in place to reunite the 2,300 children separated from their parents under the zero-tolerance policy since early May. (For some children, it may come down to whether they managed to remember a phone number.) For all of Trump’s efforts to quell the outrage this week, the inhumanity of his restrictionist immigration policy remains very much intact.