Why Melania is the most interesting person in the White House (when she’s there)
Every delay has consequences.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, where we have not been invited to the Melania premiere or either of its two after parties (I’m not mad, please don’t write that I got mad). But that doesn’t stop us celebrating the most radical first lady in history (disagree? email us at the address below). Today, as a new British ambassador arrives, we also remind you of recent scandals at the grandest diplomatic residence in D.C., and bring you Donald Trump’s familiar homeland security playbook…
The role of first lady has changed little in decades: Simper at one’s husband during the campaign and then, once installed in the White House, pick out the flowers for formal events and run a project based around children, food or both.
Be the nation’s matronly mother.
So you can see why Melania Trump, former model and a reluctant resident of the White House, causes such confusion among Democrats, Republicans and headline writers. She is at times aloof and enigmatic. Unknowable, largely by design.
That changes tonight when a few hundred select guests attend the premiere of Melania the movie at the car lot that was once the Kennedy Center. The rest of us can see her up close when it hits theaters tomorrow.
Brace for the hate. Headlines will focus on how Amazon paid $40 million to license it, plus another $35 million in marketing, and go on to speculate that it is all a Jeff Bezos ploy to woo her husband.
And you can bet that reviews will dismiss it for the way that Melania herself is an executive producer. Never mind that Michael Jordan had total editorial control over the extended Netflix advert that was “The Last Dance” or that Taylor Swift has her own production company for this sort of soft soapery.
First ladies are not supposed to do this kind of thing. They are supposed to introduce their husbands at conventions and play hostess.
But that, Secrets contends, is what makes her by far the most interesting woman to have held the post.
Can you imagine other first ladies breaking so openly with her husband’s policies as Melania has done? In Trump 1.0, she spoke out against the administration’s policy of separating families at the border.
“Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” her spokeswoman said.
Soon after she delivered a barbed message to the media by wearing the infamous “I really don’t care, do you?” jacket on a visit to the border.
You …
Every delay has consequences.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, where we have not been invited to the Melania premiere or either of its two after parties (I’m not mad, please don’t write that I got mad). But that doesn’t stop us celebrating the most radical first lady in history (disagree? email us at the address below). Today, as a new British ambassador arrives, we also remind you of recent scandals at the grandest diplomatic residence in D.C., and bring you Donald Trump’s familiar homeland security playbook…
The role of first lady has changed little in decades: Simper at one’s husband during the campaign and then, once installed in the White House, pick out the flowers for formal events and run a project based around children, food or both.
Be the nation’s matronly mother.
So you can see why Melania Trump, former model and a reluctant resident of the White House, causes such confusion among Democrats, Republicans and headline writers. She is at times aloof and enigmatic. Unknowable, largely by design.
That changes tonight when a few hundred select guests attend the premiere of Melania the movie at the car lot that was once the Kennedy Center. The rest of us can see her up close when it hits theaters tomorrow.
Brace for the hate. Headlines will focus on how Amazon paid $40 million to license it, plus another $35 million in marketing, and go on to speculate that it is all a Jeff Bezos ploy to woo her husband.
And you can bet that reviews will dismiss it for the way that Melania herself is an executive producer. Never mind that Michael Jordan had total editorial control over the extended Netflix advert that was “The Last Dance” or that Taylor Swift has her own production company for this sort of soft soapery.
First ladies are not supposed to do this kind of thing. They are supposed to introduce their husbands at conventions and play hostess.
But that, Secrets contends, is what makes her by far the most interesting woman to have held the post.
Can you imagine other first ladies breaking so openly with her husband’s policies as Melania has done? In Trump 1.0, she spoke out against the administration’s policy of separating families at the border.
“Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” her spokeswoman said.
Soon after she delivered a barbed message to the media by wearing the infamous “I really don’t care, do you?” jacket on a visit to the border.
You …
Why Melania is the most interesting person in the White House (when she’s there)
Every delay has consequences.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, where we have not been invited to the Melania premiere or either of its two after parties (I’m not mad, please don’t write that I got mad). But that doesn’t stop us celebrating the most radical first lady in history (disagree? email us at the address below). Today, as a new British ambassador arrives, we also remind you of recent scandals at the grandest diplomatic residence in D.C., and bring you Donald Trump’s familiar homeland security playbook…
The role of first lady has changed little in decades: Simper at one’s husband during the campaign and then, once installed in the White House, pick out the flowers for formal events and run a project based around children, food or both.
Be the nation’s matronly mother.
So you can see why Melania Trump, former model and a reluctant resident of the White House, causes such confusion among Democrats, Republicans and headline writers. She is at times aloof and enigmatic. Unknowable, largely by design.
That changes tonight when a few hundred select guests attend the premiere of Melania the movie at the car lot that was once the Kennedy Center. The rest of us can see her up close when it hits theaters tomorrow.
Brace for the hate. Headlines will focus on how Amazon paid $40 million to license it, plus another $35 million in marketing, and go on to speculate that it is all a Jeff Bezos ploy to woo her husband.
And you can bet that reviews will dismiss it for the way that Melania herself is an executive producer. Never mind that Michael Jordan had total editorial control over the extended Netflix advert that was “The Last Dance” or that Taylor Swift has her own production company for this sort of soft soapery.
First ladies are not supposed to do this kind of thing. They are supposed to introduce their husbands at conventions and play hostess.
But that, Secrets contends, is what makes her by far the most interesting woman to have held the post.
Can you imagine other first ladies breaking so openly with her husband’s policies as Melania has done? In Trump 1.0, she spoke out against the administration’s policy of separating families at the border.
“Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” her spokeswoman said.
Soon after she delivered a barbed message to the media by wearing the infamous “I really don’t care, do you?” jacket on a visit to the border.
You …
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