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Miranda Devine: ‘Melania’ serves as a dainty middle finger to Trump’s media tormenters — who were wrong about everything

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02.02.2026

In a big blow to the Trump-deranged community, Melania Trump’s eponymous movie knocked the lights out on its opening weekend. It came in at No. 3 overall, and its $7 million box office take in three days is almost unheard of for a documentary.

“Melania” is crushing it on Rotten Tomatoes, too, with a 99% audience score on the “popcorno­meter” easily besting the sneering critics’ 10% on the Tomatometer ratings.

Like everything to do with Donald Trump’s two presidencies, whatever the leftist media’s opinion, the American public thinks the opposite. The inverse media-ometer is one of the most reliable gauges of public sentiment in this country.

“To say that ‘Melania’ is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies,” sniffed the Hollywood Reporter. Variety called it “a shameless infomercial.”

The first lady is “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda,” snarled the Independent. The Guardian panned the movie as “gilded trash” and “two hours of … pure, endless hell.”

Ha-ha. Haters gonna hate.

But that’s not what 99% of viewers said in hundreds of glowing audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Absolute class act documentary,” wrote Glynis. “Highly highly recommend.”

“Such a pleasure to see real class return to the White House,” wrote Deborah T.

“She is so classy, passionate and truly the most accomplished woman and First Lady ever!” wrote Susan.

“A view of the FLOTUS that the network media and national publications refuse to acknowledge,” wrote Kevin.

“Melania Trump is circumspect, a useful quality to have in Slovenia while it withered within the repressive Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,........

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