Earlier this week, Melania Trump visited the Texas facilities where migrant children separated from their parents are being detained.

“I’m here to learn about your facility,” she told a group of officials at the centre, adding that she wanted to offer “help to these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible”.

During her time at the facility, the FLOTUS met with doctors, social workers and those providing medical and educational services to some of the 2,300 children split from their families on the US-Mexico border – just days after White House officials credited her with helping persuade the president to end his policy of family separation at the border.

However, Melania’s empathetic visit to the Mexican border was quickly overshadowed by the astonishing message emblazoned on the back of her coat.

As she boarded a plane at Andrews Air Force, photographers snapped dozens of photos of the FLOTUS in a khaki jacket with the words “I really don’t care do u?” scrawled across it.

Twitter was soon flooded with criticism for Melania, with Amnesty International’s US branch tweeting that they were “shook by the blatant lack of empathy” the first lady demonstrated when she chose to wear the jacket.

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