Melania was challenged by leading women from her native country, Slovenia, to "speak out" on Trump policies or risk being remembered for her "don't care" jacket.
Now that some hullabaloo in her native land related to her wooden statue erected at the outskirts of her hometown has been rising, so has the buzz regarding her possible return there. And there have been mixed feelings about her and her rumored homecoming.
This talk started when Viktor Knavs, her father, was said to have been seen driving somewhere along the road to Sevnica. Many were said to have been let down by the fact that the First Lady has not been to visit the country of her birth in more than a decade.
Some on the other hand, welcome the possibility and feel it is high time she does. In that way, she might be emboldened to speak on certain pressing matters that are presently causing some worldwide concerns.
The organization, Women Without Borders, which is composed of government leaders, lawyers, businesswomen, artists, and the like, under the leadership of Jerca Legan, has decided to send the United States First Lady an invitation to join them and help consider such issues.
Some foremost women in Slovenia, one of whom is a long-time friend of Melania, Maja Ferme, who is a forerunner in fashion just like the First Lady and a supporter of a number of charities, had hoped the FLOTUS had been more vocal on issues and more visible in the international scene.
Darinka Pavlic Kamien, who works as a consultant in the area of communication, shared that she had not come across a "strong statement" from the FLOTUS "in years." And she went on to say that it was sort of "embarrassing" and maybe even somewhat "shameful."
Nena Cresnar Pregar, on the other hand, expressed her respect for Melania who had made it big in the U.S. However, she also said that she remembered the U.S. First Lady as having been braver in "her youth." Pregar shared she wanted to inspire Melania to be more vocal on the issue of "equality."
Moreover, Pregar, who works with foreign investors in Slovenia as an investment adviser, hoped that her countrywoman would become more involved in working to free immigrant children from "prisons" and speak on environmental concerns that are affecting the global community such as climate change.
Pregar also underlined that Melania's silence on such matters will only result in her being remembered for her "Don't Care" garb.
The controversial jacket, which had been taken as a representation of her stand on deplorable conditions of children on the U.S.-Mexico border stations, has come back time and again to haunt the First Lady. She had worn it in October during her visit to a Texas detention center which housed immigrant children.
The FLOTUS has since defended herself for that fashion choice, saying that the Zara jacket was merely some protective clothing for her for when she embarked or disembarked from the plane. The First Lady went on to explain in an interview that time with ABC News that the message "I Really Don't Care Do U?" was also a talk-back to nosy, faultfinding "left-wing" press people.
She expressed her stand, saying that she wanted to tell those people that she did not "care" what they thought. She felt their criticism was no deterrent to her doing what she feels "is right," by visiting those children.
However, after that visit, she had chosen to stay silent about the issues that had been brought up about the deplorable conditions in those detention centers, not to mention the health plight of the children who were being housed there. The First lady has even been criticized and deemed insincere in her "Be Best" goals because of her failure to address or speak out about those pressing issues on immigrant children.
