What happened when the DC bubble went to see the Melania movie
Be honest—this is ridiculous.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the best and worst of the nation’s politics. Today we are still defrosting our toes, running the rule over the Melania documentary, and taking you inside Donald Trump’s appearance at the Alfalfa Club dinner…
The movie theater wasn’t empty. One couple was already in the fourth row as Secrets arrived for one of the first screenings of Melania in Washington at the end of last week.
A woman with the sort of knitted hat that Melania Trump would never wear was next to arrive.
And then, one of the most predictable of things happened.
“Fancy running into you here,” said the fellow journalist sheepishly as he eyed the back row where Secrets was settling in with a popcorn bucket adorned with the image of the first lady — someone not previously associated with buttery cinema snacks.
It was the classic D.C. bubble experience. A major cultural moment arrives with a documentary about the first lady. It is a chance to take the temperature of the nation, see behind the scenes of this most unconventional White House, and find out what voters think.
But it turned out the 2:15 p.m. screening at the Regal theater in Gallery Place was largely a chance for journalists to interview each other and then write b****y pieces about empty seats.
Which was a shame because the film was by turns mindless and revealing, predictable and arresting.
So for every pointless revelation, such as the fact that the first lady has an entire drawer just for sunglasses at Mar-a-Lago, there is another tantalizing detail about her relationship with Donald Trump.
For example, the cameras get access to Trump rehearsing his inaugural speech. The once and future first lady suggests adding the word “unifier” at a crucial point.
When the president delivers the line, with her suggestion, during the ceremony, he turns and points to her. She acknowledges his acknowledgment before looking directly at the documentary camera.
“You see,” is what her eyes say. “This is how it works.”
Was that the secret message of the movie?
That’s what Secrets was hoping to discuss with fellow patrons of the 2:15 p.m. showing. What did we learn? Will voters view the first lady differently? Did it divide the nation?
We’ll never know. Instead, Secrets can report what a bunch of journalists concluded.
“Vacuous nonsense,” was how the journalist from the Guardian in the back row put it.
The woman with the knitted hat also turned out not to be a real person.
“I’m a …
Be honest—this is ridiculous.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the best and worst of the nation’s politics. Today we are still defrosting our toes, running the rule over the Melania documentary, and taking you inside Donald Trump’s appearance at the Alfalfa Club dinner…
The movie theater wasn’t empty. One couple was already in the fourth row as Secrets arrived for one of the first screenings of Melania in Washington at the end of last week.
A woman with the sort of knitted hat that Melania Trump would never wear was next to arrive.
And then, one of the most predictable of things happened.
“Fancy running into you here,” said the fellow journalist sheepishly as he eyed the back row where Secrets was settling in with a popcorn bucket adorned with the image of the first lady — someone not previously associated with buttery cinema snacks.
It was the classic D.C. bubble experience. A major cultural moment arrives with a documentary about the first lady. It is a chance to take the temperature of the nation, see behind the scenes of this most unconventional White House, and find out what voters think.
But it turned out the 2:15 p.m. screening at the Regal theater in Gallery Place was largely a chance for journalists to interview each other and then write b****y pieces about empty seats.
Which was a shame because the film was by turns mindless and revealing, predictable and arresting.
So for every pointless revelation, such as the fact that the first lady has an entire drawer just for sunglasses at Mar-a-Lago, there is another tantalizing detail about her relationship with Donald Trump.
For example, the cameras get access to Trump rehearsing his inaugural speech. The once and future first lady suggests adding the word “unifier” at a crucial point.
When the president delivers the line, with her suggestion, during the ceremony, he turns and points to her. She acknowledges his acknowledgment before looking directly at the documentary camera.
“You see,” is what her eyes say. “This is how it works.”
Was that the secret message of the movie?
That’s what Secrets was hoping to discuss with fellow patrons of the 2:15 p.m. showing. What did we learn? Will voters view the first lady differently? Did it divide the nation?
We’ll never know. Instead, Secrets can report what a bunch of journalists concluded.
“Vacuous nonsense,” was how the journalist from the Guardian in the back row put it.
The woman with the knitted hat also turned out not to be a real person.
“I’m a …
What happened when the DC bubble went to see the Melania movie
Be honest—this is ridiculous.
Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the best and worst of the nation’s politics. Today we are still defrosting our toes, running the rule over the Melania documentary, and taking you inside Donald Trump’s appearance at the Alfalfa Club dinner…
The movie theater wasn’t empty. One couple was already in the fourth row as Secrets arrived for one of the first screenings of Melania in Washington at the end of last week.
A woman with the sort of knitted hat that Melania Trump would never wear was next to arrive.
And then, one of the most predictable of things happened.
“Fancy running into you here,” said the fellow journalist sheepishly as he eyed the back row where Secrets was settling in with a popcorn bucket adorned with the image of the first lady — someone not previously associated with buttery cinema snacks.
It was the classic D.C. bubble experience. A major cultural moment arrives with a documentary about the first lady. It is a chance to take the temperature of the nation, see behind the scenes of this most unconventional White House, and find out what voters think.
But it turned out the 2:15 p.m. screening at the Regal theater in Gallery Place was largely a chance for journalists to interview each other and then write b****y pieces about empty seats.
Which was a shame because the film was by turns mindless and revealing, predictable and arresting.
So for every pointless revelation, such as the fact that the first lady has an entire drawer just for sunglasses at Mar-a-Lago, there is another tantalizing detail about her relationship with Donald Trump.
For example, the cameras get access to Trump rehearsing his inaugural speech. The once and future first lady suggests adding the word “unifier” at a crucial point.
When the president delivers the line, with her suggestion, during the ceremony, he turns and points to her. She acknowledges his acknowledgment before looking directly at the documentary camera.
“You see,” is what her eyes say. “This is how it works.”
Was that the secret message of the movie?
That’s what Secrets was hoping to discuss with fellow patrons of the 2:15 p.m. showing. What did we learn? Will voters view the first lady differently? Did it divide the nation?
We’ll never know. Instead, Secrets can report what a bunch of journalists concluded.
“Vacuous nonsense,” was how the journalist from the Guardian in the back row put it.
The woman with the knitted hat also turned out not to be a real person.
“I’m a …
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