What happened when the DC bubble went to see the Melania movie

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