Sophie Gilbert

You know, she walks smoothly through these liminal spaces.

You know, she's at the...

airport boarding the plane and she's in a hallway she's in a freight elevator with you know secret service she gets in a car there's no traffic because you know they've cleared the roads and she goes to saint patrick's cathedral they've cleared all the people out so that she can go in privately it's this very smooth curated manufactured reality i think where nothing annoys her nothing really gets in her way she's just sort of moving from place to place without anyone

There are no friends.

She has sort of supplicants.

She has, you know, her trusted wardrobe designers and the people designing the themes for the balls, the events planners.

And everyone is very deferential to her.

And it doesn't seem that sincere a relationship.

Maybe it is when the cameras are off.

But you don't even see her have a conversation with her son.

Like...

You see Baron, but he doesn't speak in the movie.

They don't have any interaction.

She has a few scenes with Donald.

And that was interesting to me is how Melania seems to be the only person in the world that Donald can stand sharing the limelight with.

Like we know that he is very much an enjoyer of attention.

And yet when Melania is the focus, it doesn't seem to bother him.

He seems proud.

He seems sort of genuinely enthralled by her in a way that I was not quite expecting.

Hi, Mr. President.