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The “Melania” movie is empty, foul and worse than we imagined

Neither insightful nor interesting, the first lady’s disgraceful doc exists only to fuel Trump’s propaganda machine

Published February 1, 2026 12:00PM (EST)

What do you get the woman who has everything — if “everything” constitutes a collection of ghastly hats, a Grinchian disdain for Christmas and a giant golden cage from which she manages the occasional stiff smile? Well, a documentary, of course! After all, what Melania Trump really needs is busywork. It’s not as if anything in American politics is more pressing for her right now than executive-producing a film about her life in the 20 days leading up to the 2025 presidential inauguration, simply called “Melania.”

As its one-word title suggests, “Melania” is as stilted and mind-numbing as its subject, an “intimate” glimpse of one of the world’s most talked-about women that couldn’t be more distant from human emotion if its interminable 104 minutes were just a blank screen with no picture. But it wouldn’t take a geopolitical genius to figure out that would be the result. Five minutes — heck, even one minute — spent watching Melania Trump speak would tell you all you need to know about what this exclusive documentary has in store for its viewers. “Melania” will be apathetic and unconvincing; it will be swathed in garish gold and putrid peach; and it will be filled with lecherous hangers-on, willing to bark like seals on camera and sacrifice their dignity to align themselves with a neo-fascist regime.

What’s far more important is what’s not being said in the movie, which appears when you read between the lines. Released in the shadow of Donald........

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