Melania Trump admitted that the message on her "I really don’t care, do u?" jacket—which she wore on a trip to visit immigrant kids at a border detention center—was directed at the media.

"It's obvious I didn't wear the jacket for the children. I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane," the First Lady told ABC News on Friday Night. "And it was for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticizing me."

When the controversy broke in June, Trump's communications director initially insisted that the jacket contained "no hidden message."

"I would prefer that they focus on what I do and my initiatives than what I wear," said Trump, who also told ABC that she was "blindsided" by her husband's zero-tolerance immigration policy.

One easy way to prevent the media from closely analyzing her fashion choices would be to stop wearing clothes with messages in them. We wouldn’t be talking about her jacket if she didn't wear it with the express intention of taking a jab at the press! We wouldn’t be talking about what she wore to Africa if she didn’t go for the "colonizer chic" look. It's truly that simple.

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Melania Trump tells @TomLlamasABC she wore the ‘I really don’t care’ jacket “for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticizing me. And I want to show them that I don’t care.” #MelaniaTrump https://t.co/EqEyfZkJvZ pic.twitter.com/2EWeCKB0de — ABC News (@ABC) October 13, 2018

Gabrielle Bruney Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture.

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