Maureen Dowd

And there was much more of a sense that she was in on the joke.

She was laughing about how they had outfitted her and Calvin Klein to look like a politician's girlfriend and that she'd never worn skirts that long, but she wasn't going to give up her stilettos.

I mean, there was a more sly sense, and that was totally absent in this film.

That's so interesting.

And I think liberalism.

have always fantasized about that but I always thought that was silly remember they thought maybe she would go to like the women's resistance marches and go in disguise and a pink pussy hat and you know that was just wishful thinking on the part of liberals she is

Whatever her relationship with Trump is, whatever their deal is, she is very comfortable in this vertical solitude of the gilded world that he has set her in.

Yeah, this is like a bad episode of The Gilded Age.

Totally.

Without Christine Baranski, unfortunately.

Right.

Well, Amazon gave $40 million to make the movie and another $35 million to promote it.

And out of that, Melania pockets $28 million.

And so, obviously, that is just a way for Jeff Bezos to curry favor.

And there's this hilarious scene in the movie where...

where they're having a night before the inaugural dinner at the National Building Museum, and she has this pay-on to how great their donors are.

And they pan past Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and all the other lords of the cloud who have bought American government in this blatant way.

I mean, it's so heavy-handed.

Yeah, so heavy-handed.

Yeah, there's no subtlety in that, yeah.