I was at Pauw van Pauw & De Wit last week, I was present early and so it came that I spent fifteen minutes with Marjolein Faber, former Minister of Asylum and Migration, in an almost abandoned bar space. I was pleased with her arrival, was curious how she would be in real life, well the first impression was very cordially. The sale of her book went well, publisher Mai had already put an extra pressure after a day, she wondered where that would end in the Bestseller Top 60, I thought high, she was more careful. She often traveled by public transport, she was never afraid, also because she says she is hugely popular, the people came to bring her coffee and sausage rolls to the train, something she could really appreciate because she is butcher’s daughter, she hated chicken bitterballen, she thought “,” however. ” She had it different from her than in her time as a minister, it was better now. She also joked that I already knew. When someone said that a door was clamping to the toilets, she said that it didn’t matter because the Mediapark would be razed to the ground after the elections.
During the broadcast I saw this cordial woman lifting herself in a harness in a few seconds where she only came out again afterwards. Beep, there she was again.
I thought she might have been depressed by her performance, but she was just tidy, so that was on it again, she had no nasty taste of it, until next time perhaps, or not, also good. She had experienced something completely different than the other people present. She still thought she had been a good minister and had won this interview again, as she actually wins every interview. She went outside, to her own bubble, where not answering questions is steadfast and brave and asking them is seen when a war experience is seen.
I would have liked to have been in the car on the way back to Amersfoort, with a company that talks to her to her mouth.
In the best case, the conclusion was that the surprise across the other on the other side is just as great. And furthermore, almost everyone changes bedding once every two weeks.
Marcel van Roosmalen Writes a column on Monday and Thursday.
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