{"id":12711,"date":"2026-01-28T23:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/melania-trump-fights-back-against-hilariously-bad-reviews-of-her-new-documentary\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:45:03","slug":"melania-trump-fights-back-against-hilariously-bad-reviews-of-her-new-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/melania-trump-fights-back-against-hilariously-bad-reviews-of-her-new-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump Fights Back Against Hilariously Bad Reviews of Her New Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The timing couldn\u2019t be worse.<\/p>\n<p>The week that her husband\u2019s approval ratings hit record lows happens to be the same week that Melania Trump is debuting her self-titled documentary.<\/p>\n<p>And if the early reviews and box office forecasts are any indication, the film is about to endure one of the worst receptions in modern Hollywood history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"First lady Melania Trump listens as U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) delivers remarks during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. \" class=\"wp-image-546784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"First lady Melania Trump listens as U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) delivers remarks during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. \" class=\"wp-image-546784 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2222872839-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">First lady Melania Trump listens as U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) delivers remarks during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the review site Letterboxd, users have been bombarding <em>Melania<\/em> with horrendous feedback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t care, do u? \u00bd star,\u201d wrote one user, referencing a slogan written on a jacket that Melania once wore, seemingly in response to her critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard all of her lines are taken from a Michelle Obama documentary,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody asked for this absolute piece of flaming garbage,\u201d a third chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth critic was even more to the point, writing, \u201cABOLISH ICE. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MELANIA | Official Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dxXJAqOU00g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Many of those reviews have since been deleted, a move that many believe was made at the behest of someone working for the Trump administration,<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the bad reviews are to be expected, and the Trumps will likely just chalk them up to vitriol from the \u201chaters and losers\u201d (although by most accounts, the film, directed by disgraced Hollywood exile Brett Ratner, is genuinely bad by just about any metric).<\/p>\n<p>But what Donald and Melania may <em>not<\/em> have anticipated is the fact that the film is also on track to be a historic box office bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users in multiple cities have reported that in the theaters closest to them, every single seat is still available, meaning not a single ticket has been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, documentaries generally don\u2019t make much money, and documentaries fawning about historically unpopular regimes are only of interest years later, once the threat is extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s enough to make you wonder why Amazon Studios and MGM (which is owned by Amazon) would shell out a reported budget of $75 million for such a risky venture. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump step on an escalator as they arrive for the 80th session of the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s General Assembly (UNGA) on September 23, 2025 in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-546783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump step on an escalator as they arrive for the 80th session of the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s General Assembly (UNGA) on September 23, 2025 in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-546783 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2236960575-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump step on an escalator as they arrive for the 80th session of the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s General Assembly (UNGA) on September 23, 2025 in New York City.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many believe the answer to that question is that Jeff Bezos did not expect an immediate return on his investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey paid Melania Trump $28 million to make a movie absolutely nobody wanted to see. That\u2019s called a bribe, folks,\u201d wrote one user on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question we need to be asking about the Melania movie is what does Jeff Bezos want so badly from the Trump admin he was willing to spend $40 million of his own money making this crapola?\u201d another chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Like Mark Zuckerberg, Bezos was critical of Trump during his first term in office, but he\u2019s fallen into line for Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not hard to see why so many are side-eyeing this particular venture (which reportedly placed a cool $28 million directly in Melania\u2019s pocket).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe <em>Melania<\/em> will defy the odds and pull in big box office numbers on the strength of word of mouth \u2014 but something tells us Bezos is content to wait for a different sort of compensation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes The timing couldn\u2019t be worse. 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