The riddle of the Slovenian Sphinx has been solved, begins New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's brutal Sunday review of the first lady's vanity project, MELANIA, the documentary. It turns out there is no riddle, no enigma, no mystery, no dark anguish, Dowd writes of the $40 million Amazon project with a $35 million marketing budget adding that the movie shows Melania Trump exactly where she wants to be, in the bosom of a corrupt family that is prostituting the People's House.
We've known about the mendacity for years consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president's first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth. At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would run that country,
"The plan was met with skepticism from many economists, and it is likely to be challenged in court as beyond the constitutional limits of the president."