--- title: Stephen Colbert Rips Melania for 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket description: As social media erupted with the news of Melania Trump's "I really don't care" jacket, Stephen Colbert shared his own thoughts on the coat. canonical: https://time.com/5319687/stephen-colbert-melania-trump-jacket/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-22T15:12:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:30.474Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Rips Into Melania Trump for That Jacket og:description: The First Lady's controversial coat has drawn intense criticism og:url: https://time.com/5319687/stephen-colbert-melania-trump-jacket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01cb2280e2be48a1/698933a57cdbac46f8d5d387/screen-shot-2018-06-22-at-10-53-27-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 10.53.27 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Rips Into Melania Trump for That Jacket twitter:description: The First Lady's controversial coat has drawn intense criticism twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01cb2280e2be48a1/698933a57cdbac46f8d5d387/screen-shot-2018-06-22-at-10-53-27-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Rips Into Melania Trump for 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 22, 2018 3:12 PM UTC  CBS  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 22, 2018 3:12 PM UTC As [social media erupted](http://time.com/5319414/melania-trump-jacket-texas-immigration/) with the news of [Melania Trump wearing a jacket](http://time.com/5319150/melania-trump-jacket-texas/) that read, “I really don’t care. Do U?” ahead of her Thursday visit to a [child detention center](http://time.com/5317255/refugee-child-policy-europe-u-s-alf-dubs-amendment/) in Texas, Stephen Colbert shared his own thoughts on the controversial coat. “When I heard that she was doing this I thought, ‘OK, this is what first ladies often do—you go to a troubled area, they see the children, they show that we care. You can’t mess that up,'” the _Late Show_ host said of the first lady’s unannounced trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. “Guess what? I spoke too soon.” Colbert then addressed the statement issued by First Lady spokesperson Stephanie Grisham in defense of the wardrobe choice. “It’s a jacket,” Grisham said on Thursday. “There was no hidden message.” “Right. It’s definitely not hidden,” Colbert quipped. “It’s right on the back. And i’m going to guess this is one message she did not [steal from Michelle Obama](http://time.com/5268499/melania-trump-cyberbullying-humor/).” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5319687/stephen-colbert-melania-trump-jacket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5319687/stephen-colbert-melania-trump-jacket/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Rips Into Melania Trump for 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket","datePublished":"2018-06-22T15:12:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:30.474Z","description":"The First Lady's controversial coat has drawn intense criticism","url":"https://time.com/5319687/stephen-colbert-melania-trump-jacket/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","TV","the late show","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01cb2280e2be48a1/698933a57cdbac46f8d5d387/screen-shot-2018-06-22-at-10-53-27-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01cb2280e2be48a1/698933a57cdbac46f8d5d387/screen-shot-2018-06-22-at-10-53-27-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 10.53.27 AM","caption":"","creditText":"CBS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5319687/stephen-colbert-melania-trump-jacket/","name":"Stephen Colbert Rips Into Melania Trump for 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket"}}]}] ```