Why Melania is the most interesting person in the White House (when she’s there)
This affects the entire country.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, where we have not been invited to Melania Trump’s 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 Washington, 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 events and run a project based around children, food, or both.
Be the nation’s matronly mother.
So you can see why first lady Melania Trump, a 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, as well as unknowable, largely by design.
That will change tonight when a few hundred select guests attend the premiere of Melania 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 is an executive producer. Never mind that Michael Jordan had total editorial control over the extended Netflix advert 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 Melania by far the most interesting woman to have held the post.
Can you imagine other first ladies breaking so openly with their 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,” Melania’s 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 …
This affects the entire country.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, where we have not been invited to Melania Trump’s 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 Washington, 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 events and run a project based around children, food, or both.
Be the nation’s matronly mother.
So you can see why first lady Melania Trump, a 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, as well as unknowable, largely by design.
That will change tonight when a few hundred select guests attend the premiere of Melania 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 is an executive producer. Never mind that Michael Jordan had total editorial control over the extended Netflix advert 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 Melania by far the most interesting woman to have held the post.
Can you imagine other first ladies breaking so openly with their 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,” Melania’s 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 …
Why Melania is the most interesting person in the White House (when she’s there)
This affects the entire country.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, where we have not been invited to Melania Trump’s 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 Washington, 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 events and run a project based around children, food, or both.
Be the nation’s matronly mother.
So you can see why first lady Melania Trump, a 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, as well as unknowable, largely by design.
That will change tonight when a few hundred select guests attend the premiere of Melania 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 is an executive producer. Never mind that Michael Jordan had total editorial control over the extended Netflix advert 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 Melania by far the most interesting woman to have held the post.
Can you imagine other first ladies breaking so openly with their 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,” Melania’s 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 …
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