Maureen Dowd

It was so funny because I went in downtown Washington, and there were only a few people there.

They were all journalists.

So finally, one of the journalists, this guy stands up in the back of the theater and goes, are there any civilians here?

Yeah.

I wanted to interview someone.

And one journalist tapped me on the shoulder, Betsy Klein of CNN.

And she's like, can I talk to you about the movie after?

And I went, no.

And she looked shocked.

And I said, no, because I'm a journalist, Betsy.

You know, so it was...

You know, it was just very incestuous with just a few journalists.

Although I did bring my trumpeting Republican sister, which was very revealing because that way I knew that there was a group of older white women who were going to love this movie.

Well, it's interesting because I went on Trump's first presidential exploratory trip to make a speech in Miami to Cuban Americans.

It was 1999.

And Melania, who was then Melania Nauss, was there.

And she was his girlfriend.

And...

I liked her.

I thought she was cool.