The secret message stitched into Melania Trump's garments at Jimmy Carter's funeral that explain her strikingly somber mood
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Melania Trump certainly didn't look pleased to be back in Washington DC. Just 11 days shy of her husband's inauguration, the mood seemed a little grim as she accompanied her husband up the nave of the Washington National Cathedral and took her place at the far end of a second-row pew for the state funeral of the late President Jimmy Carter.
![[Melania seemed wholly uninterested in catching up with fellow members of that most exclusive club, the former First Ladies, sitting just a short distance away.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/18/93968491-14271141-image-a-2_1736532963701.jpg)
With no near neighbors to converse with either to the front or back, Melania sat in silence while Trump chatted animatedly with his one-time foe, President Barack Obama. Melania, meanwhile, looked oblivious, glacial even, staring out unmoved by what was taking place around her.
![[Melania defied convention at the 2023 funeral of Rosalynn Carter, choosing to wear grey rather than traditional black.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/17/93961761-14271141-Melania_defied_convention_at_the_2023_funeral_of_Rosalynn_Carter-a-14_1736528617555.jpg)
She seemed wholly uninterested in catching up with fellow members of that most exclusive club – the former First Ladies – sitting just a short distance away. Melania's solemnity seemed quite excessive even by the standards of a state funeral while the absurdity of her oversized white collar – featuring a neoclassical sculpture of kissing lovers in black and white print – could almost have been a display of mocking disdain.
![[Amlija's death a year ago to the day of President Carter's state funeral last week was a life-altering moment for the model turned political consort. (Pictured: Melania Trump with her mother at New York City's Olympus Fashion Week Fall in 2004).]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/18/79505955-14271141-Knavs_was_a_textile_factory_dealer_in_her_native_Slovenia_when_s-a-20_1736532528370.jpg)
But, when it comes to Melania, there is always an element of surprise. She had, of course, memorably worn grey rather than the usual black for the 2023 funeral of Carter's late wife, Rosalynn, after all. Now she has confounded her critics once again - this time with an outfit which held a hidden meaning only she, and perhaps her stylist, would ever truly know.
![[Pictured: Melania at the funeral service of her mother Amalija Knavs on January 18, 2024.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/18/80189357-14271141-Melania_maintained_her_steely_composure_as_she_emerged_from_chur-m-22_1736532595091.jpg)
