Sean Spicer expected to address immigration ban

The film was a Box Office hit, garnering $1.028 billion.

He dismissed suggestions that intelligence about an impending attack may have prompted Trump’s signing of the executive order that restricts immigrants from seven countries – Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

The billionaire Republican’s executive order sparked outrage globally after it was announced on Saturday. The executive decision, especially, prohibits entry for 120 days for all refugees.

As protests were heating up, the president was taking in his first movie in the White House movie screening room.

When Trump’s official press schedule was revealed, many people couldn’t help expressing their opinions on social media.

The order, which can be read on the White House website, cites no specific religious sect and actually calls on the Secretary of State to prioritize persecuted religious minorities for admission as refugees to the United States.

Numerous legal challenges to Trump’s order argue that people should be allowed to stay in the US if they’ve already been allowed entry, are in transit or have valid visas.

Actor Albert Brooks, who gives voice to the character of Marlin in the movie, spoke out on Twitter, as did others.

Writer and director Judd Apatow additionally used the screening to criticize Trump, comparing the reality show producer’s attention span to that of Finding Dory’s central character, who suffers from short-term memory loss.

He said that detained travelers were “temporarily inconvenienced” and that the order was meant to “make sure that somebody is inconvenienced a little”.

Judd Apatow replied to tweets about the Dory screening by saying Trump “relates to Ellen’s character who has no attention span”.

Those were the two key takeaways from remarks by White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday afternoon when asked to account for the controversial ban and a draft dissent cable put forth by State Departments employees, and obtained by news outlets, officially challenging the order. He greeted and thanked guests before getting back to work. In the movie, Dory swims through the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef to return to her childhood home: a habitat which rehabilitates marine life damaged by the effects of climate change and pollution. He chose Finding Dory and star Albert Brooks, who provided the voice for Marlin, found that unusual.