First lady Melania Trump once left quite an impression on Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep — and it wasn’t a good one.

In a Vogue interview published on Wednesday to promote the new film “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the magazine’s former editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, was asked how women should dress to communicate power, and she suggested that women nix the “power suit” and emulate real-life women with actual power. Wintour then mentioned a few current and former first ladies who have a knack for expressing who they are through their fashion, like Michelle Obama and Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“To be fair, Melania Trump also always looks like herself when she dresses,” Wintour said.

In response to Wintour’s remark about Trump’s fashion choices, Streep recalled a jacket the first lady wore in 2018.

“I think the most…powerful message that our current first lady sent was in the coat that said ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ when she was going to see migrant children who were incarcerated,” Streep said. “All dress is about expressing yourself, but we’re also subject to larger historical and political sweeps of expectation.”

Although the first lady’s controversial jacket seemed to imply that she didn’t care about children affected by her husband’s policies, Trump later told ABC News that the message was aimed at “the people and for the left-wing media who are criticizing me.”

Streep also took issue with society’s expectations of how powerful women should dress.

“I’m stunned at how women in power have to have bare arms on television while men are covered in shirts and ties or a suit,” Streep said. “There’s an apology built into women. They have to show their smallness. It’s compensatory: The advancements of women in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one have been destabilizing. It’s as if women have to say, ‘I’m little. I can’t walk in these shoes. I can’t run. I’m bare, not threatening.’”

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom but prefers to be referred to as the first partner of California, also recently spoke out about two conservative women who, until very recently, wielded significant power: former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. They were the first prominent members of the president’s cabinet to be fired during his second term, even though they embraced the aesthetics preferred by those in the MAGA movement.

“The conservative women that Trump handpicks who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy and pushing us back into the straitjacket of femininity that is only in service of men, there’s a familiar pattern here,” Siebel Newsom said. “Women are brought in, packaged Mar-a-Lago style, and lifted up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top.”

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