--- title: Melania Trump Reveals Clothes Hidden Messages on Late Show description: On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, First Lady Melania Trump reveals the hidden messages she's sending in her wardrobe. canonical: https://time.com/5323967/melania-trump-on-colbert/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-27T20:05:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:34.563Z og:title: 'Melania Trump' Reveals the Hidden Messages in Her Wardrobe og:description: Here's what FLOTUS is trying to tell us og:url: https://time.com/5323967/melania-trump-on-colbert/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5568764d20f3e951/69893417cf40a8da47c4c97e/melaniacolbert.jpeg?branch=production&width=946&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 946 og:image:height: 532 og:image:alt: MelaniaColbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Melania Trump' Reveals the Hidden Messages in Her Wardrobe twitter:description: Here's what FLOTUS is trying to tell us twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5568764d20f3e951/69893417cf40a8da47c4c97e/melaniacolbert.jpeg?branch=production&width=946&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Melania Trump' Reveals the Hidden Messages in Her Wardrobe to Stephen Colbert > Sponsored content. 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In a segment on his show on Tuesday, Colbert interviewed “FLOTUS” as portrayed by Laura Benanti, during which “Melania” denied that her jacket intentionally sent a “callous message,” while wearing a t-shirt that read “Believe My Clothing” and a “F the Kids” baseball cap. “I’m starting to think your clothes are a purposeful distraction from the heartbreaking images we’ve seen from the detention centers,” Colbert said before fake Melania showed him a spangled scarf that read “Murder All the Penguins” that she planned to sport to the next global warming summit. To really drive the message home, fake Melania showed off a new jacket which read: “How Many More Monstrous Acts Do I Have to Support Before People Finally Start Seeing Me as Complicit In All This?” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5323967/melania-trump-on-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5323967/melania-trump-on-colbert/"},"headline":"'Melania Trump' Reveals the Hidden Messages in Her Wardrobe to Stephen Colbert","datePublished":"2018-06-27T20:05:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:34.563Z","description":"Here's what FLOTUS is trying to tell us","url":"https://time.com/5323967/melania-trump-on-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5568764d20f3e951/69893417cf40a8da47c4c97e/melaniacolbert.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5568764d20f3e951/69893417cf40a8da47c4c97e/melaniacolbert.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MelaniaColbert","caption":"","creditText":"","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/5323967/melania-trump-on-colbert/","name":"'Melania Trump' Reveals the Hidden Messages in Her Wardrobe to Stephen Colbert"}}]}] ```