White House opens theater to public

WASHINGTON— Visitors to the White House can now visit the cloakroom-turned-movie theater where Dwight Eisenhower used to sneak off to watch westerns and where Jimmy Carter screened “All The President’s Men.” The decision to open up the private presidential theater—set up in a large cloakroom by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1942—was made by Melania Trump, the president’s wife. “The White House belongs to the people of this country,” the first lady said. The first movie put on by Donald Trump when he came to office in January was “Finding Dory,” the animated tale of a fish looking for its parents. It was screened the same weekend that protests broke out across the United States over Trump’s travel ban.—

AFP US first lady Melania Trump was credited with opening to the public a section of the White House being used as a theater.—