I’m at the point where I’m just at a loss for words about Donald and Melania Trump’s many grifts and vanity projects. The Trump family is full of the most corrupt, self-dealing, unethical, immoral people in the world. Well, as you likely know, Melania has done a “documentary.” She couldn’t care less about public service or “living in the White House,” but she’ll make a propaganda documentary about how busy she is (?) and her work as campaigning for her demented husband (??). The doc was directed by Leni Riefenstahl Brett Ratner. In recent days, they did a premiere at the Kennedy Center and a screening at the White House.
Donald Trump had barely a word to spare for his wife’s documentary, even as he pushed people to go see it. Melania Trump, 55, held a screening of Amazon’s $75 million documentary, Melania, for family and assorted VIP’s at the White House on Saturday evening. The screening was reportedly the debut viewing of the film in full for the president, 79, who promoted it on social media on Monday.
“MELANIA, the Movie, is a MUST WATCH. Get your tickets today — Selling out, FAST!” Trump wrote about the documentary, which chronicles the 20 days leading up to his 2025 inauguration through the eyes of the first lady.
Though the Trumps are not known for being particularly affectionate in public, the curt post is notable because the president often promotes the books he likes in paragraphs running hundreds of words. Trump, who included an Amazon link to purchase tickets in his post, had a little more to say on the film while speaking to reporters earlier this month.
“I’ve seen pieces of it,” he said. “It’s incredible. I tell you, I think it’s going to do very [well]. She did a book and the book was a big No. 1 bestseller and this is a movie and, uh, it seems to be captivating a lot of people’s attention. It’s, uh, very good.”
But Melania is widely expected to bomb at the box office. The vanity project, for which Jeff Bezos’ Amazon reportedly paid $40 million, is projected to make a measly $5 million on the weekend following its official release on Friday.
Trump previously tried to hype up the film in an X post on Friday that made no mention of Melania, who lives at Mar-a-Lago in Florida rather than with Trump at the White House. “COUNTDOWN: 7 Days until the World will witness an unforgettable, behind-the-scenes, look at one of the most important events of our time,” he wrote.
The film, which will premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday evening, was directed by Brett Ratner, who faced sexual misconduct allegations in 2017 and has appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Saturday’s screening at the White House was attended by guests including Queen Rania of Jordan, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, former boxer Mike Tyson, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Erika Kirk.
That guest list… yikes. I hope Tim Cook enjoyed meeting crazy-eyed black widow Erika Kirk. But yes, those CEOs are sucking up to Trump by attending Melania’s dumb screening. Little do they know that Dementia Don doesn’t really give a sh-t about Mel or any Fauxlanias milling about. And Bezos throwing $40 million at this bullsh-t? All while torching the Washington Post? As I said, corrupt, unethical, self-dealing bullsh-t.
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- Congressional Ball in the Grand Foyer of the White House Featuring: President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Dec 2025 Credit: Shawn Thew/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- Congressional Ball in the Grand Foyer of the White House Featuring: President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Dec 2025 Credit: Shawn Thew/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- Congressional Ball in the Grand Foyer of the White House Featuring: President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Dec 2025 Credit: Shawn Thew/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
Nobody gives a shit about this useless former porn star!
“Star?” Seriously, there is no need for hyperbole!
😂😂😂 ok how about porn chic?
Ok. Yes, porn chic will do just fine. Although you are taking massive liberties with “chic.”
How about “chick” instead of “chic”? (I get it–two different words, but mispronounce one, and you get the other.)
I was thinking of another “c” word…
Oh AliceB, thank you for the much needed chuckle this morning. Another “c” word indeed.
@Alice absolutely other c word !!!!! Yes I forgot the k in the other word.
That’s nobody give a fookin sheet about a former porn star!
Co-sign!
Someone else said “watch Pretty Woman instead, at least the hooker was a decent person.”
$75 million on a documentary? That’s insane.
Having watched it, and with a wife who is a Line Producer in the film industry. This … whatever it is … could have been made with $3 million USD. It’s archival footage cobbled together to make up 57 minutes of f*** a**
I’m sure it was made with less than 3 mill, and the rest went to the sketchy director and Melania (in 20/80 probably. It’s obvious that she negotiated hard and only participated in the third campaign and second term in exchange for a big piece of the grift pie for her and probably Barron too.
I think amazon paid $40 million then spent $35 million on promo. It’s not what it cost to make. Just a bribe basically.
That’s a bribe, basically.
Seriously! And then trump provides a link to Amazon in his post? WTF! Criming right out there in front of everybody!
Money laundering (of a bribe) in plain sight.
Watched it over the weekend on Amazon. I was curious. It’s very light on Melania. Which made sense cause the 5 minutes about her are an empty vessel. Heavy on how she represents and epitomises the modern Conservative American woman : white, tall, thin, tanned, long straight highlighted hair, blue eyes, tight pencil skirts, high heels, always in makeup, seen but never heard and subservient 🤮
Introduced to ‘The Trumpettes’ which had me rolling around on the floor in tears of laughter. 65 to 90 year old Palm Beach Billionaire white women with ginormous platinum blonde wigs and giant plastic boobs, lips like inflatable dinghies and so much heavy dark makeup, drag queens in full stage makeup would laugh. Teetering on high heel shoes and wearing various shades of neon luminous pink
It’s 57 minutes of your life you will never get back. It has so little info about Melania that I am completely baffled why it’s about her and do you really want to know about her. She’s empty. There’s a reason her and Princess Cathy got on well. Peas in a pod
Spare yourself the 57 mins, phone an old friend and reminisce together. Bake, watch cat videos, watch Episode 1 of S3 of Shrinking. Anything you do will kill less brain cells than this mess
Regarding the true American conservative woman – That’s funny because she is Slovenian.
She keeps forgetting.
Still waiting patiently for those immigration records we were promised almost ten years ago. Einstein visa? Where you at?
Thanks for the synopsis, Hannah. I’m not sure that Melania is subservient though. She seems to have carved out a nice little grift for herself by weaponizing everything she knows, most of which she has surely been a part of. I can’t think of another First Lady who didn’t even live with her husband at the White House. It would have been a scandal. But Melania pulls it off. And she never seems to get dragged into all the mess. To be clear, the only thing admirable about her is she’s better at corruption and grifting.
Hiya BrassyRebel
Unsure if you get notified of a reply, but I wanted to clarify what I meant about subservience because I think it was a core element of this doccie
When I said it’s light on Melania, I meant she literally gets 5 minutes of screen time
The doccie travels around the USA interviewing women who aspire to be like and look like Melania
When these women are questioned about why they admire Melania and why they want to be like her.
A similar theme repeats itself. The modern traditional Conservative American woman is a woman who stands, silently, by her husband.
Her priority, her number 1 job, her worth is measured in how she silently supports her husband, stays at home to look after the children, dutifully worships the right Christian G-d and is a patriot.
She takes care to stay thin, well coiffed and manicured, hairless, except for her “crowning glory” long, thick, voluminous hair, she is perfectly put together (not my words)
It felt like, to me, that this documentary was a manifesto for what right wing Conservative men expect from their wives
With love,
An angry queer 🇬🇧 Jewish woman lovingly and proudly married to a biracial 🇺🇸 Muslim woman
Thanks for the clarification, Hannah. 👍
I’m surprised Bezos is releasing it in theaters, where it can bomb, publicly. He should have just released it on Prime and then exaggerated the viewership numbers.
That was probably a condition of the bribe…production contract. 😉 Trump would go for a grand theater release. 🤮
I am a 70 year old woman. I hope to be on this planet for at least another 25/30 years, fingers crossed. Anyway my time is very valuable so I won’t spend 57 minutes or even 5 minutes wasted on this wife of a pedophile.
So, it’s essentially more “Be A Trad-Wife!” propaganda, eh? I’d rather see the movie “Nine” again—at least that had a couple of good production numbers. 😂😈 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbI0z78bR50
Hahahahaha — “lips like inflatable dinghies.”
I’m surprised she’s promoting it at all. I expected her to take the money and run, I don’t think she cares at all whether anybody ever watches it. It’s not like she put any of *her* money into it.
At one cinema in England, it sold 1 ticket.
That is NOT true! They sold three! One for the matinee, and two for the evening show. In one of London’s largest cinemas. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
🤣
I won’t even hate watch it. I just want them to go away, just go away.
Same. Early in the first administration I *may* have hate watched but not now.
Nope. Hate watching still gives them views and money.
Totally agree. I don’t want to add a single viewer to the viewership numbers.
Same. I even turn the sound off when the promos come on for it between my shows on Bravo.
And from Hannah’s description above, I think I’d blow a gasket watching this.
The glorious thing about reserved seating in cinemas is you can go online and see for yourself how many tickets have been sold. Not a single one in any theater in or around Boston
There’s already reports of it being a flop. What a waste of money and that’s what Bezos gets for being such a kiss-@ss.
This is chump change for Bezos, who probably knew it would flop. He’s already gotten what he wanted out of it — access to the grifter-in-chief.
There are more interesting documentaries about escorts out there.
It’s gross how the CEOs and billionaires just all decided screw every American to allow this mess to continue on. Tim Cook released a statement and I hope that the Apple employees continue to express their displeasure at him. I got nothing on Bezos except he’s an evil POS and I wish people stop giving that man an out.
You’re giving Leni Riefenstahl a bad name. So far as we know, she never sexually abused anyone.
Have the box office you deserve Melanoma. Please don’t hate watch because it gives them success. We want them to fail.
I’m kind of surprised that the people ICE is rounding up aren’t being dragged into theaters and made to pay $20 to watch it.
Just one more grift for Melania. I work at a bookstore and we have tons of unsold overstock of her book from last year. And we have a lot of Trump cult customers. But the book is small, way overpriced ($40, when most hardcovers are $30), and the cover could not be more boring. Meanwhile Michelle Obama’s new book that just came out was so hot that the publisher ran out and we are still waiting on more. Suck on that, Trumps, you’ll never be anywhere close to as good as the Obamas. Here’s hoping Melania’s stupid fake movie crashes even worse than her con of a book.
But the president said, “She did a book and the book was a big No. 1 bestseller …”
Are you saying that the president is LYING?!?!
Went to HS with Brett Ratner….. he’s still a jerk…..
The Hooker and the Felon Americas first family!
I’m surprised famed architect Melania isn’t taking a more prominent role in the WH (de) (re) construction, and in the installation of the Temu Arc de Triomphe. Surely her internationally renowned talents would be useful.
“Get your tickets today – a MUST watch – selling out fast!” Trump sounds like a huckster outside a big top circus tent. Fitting.