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.
‘Highly recommend’
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, but perhaps equally valuable in … today’s political landscape,” wrote thelegalaide.
“It was absolutely wonderful to finally see some of the wonderful things our First Lady has been involved with or even initiated. Would not see that on mainstream media!” wrote Robin.
The lavishly filmed “Melania” takes us behind the scenes of the first lady’s life in the 20 days leading up to the second inauguration.
We see inside the gilded walls of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower, a whirl of limos and private jets, as the first lady glides inscrutably among Palm Beach, New York and Washington, DC. Occasionally, we see a flash of private quarters — like the dressing room off the bedroom at Mar-a-Lago, where Joe Biden’s DOJ sent FBI agents to rummage through her underwear drawer.
Melania doesn’t mention that unfortunate incident, although no doubt it was on her mind when she allowed the cameras in.
You also see a little of the poky living room of the White House residence upstairs from the grandeur of the state rooms. She beckons the camera into the tiny kitchen at 2 a.m. after a whirlwind of inaugural balls. Staff can be seen pulling a dinner from the fridge for the returning president to eat.
As Trump heads out of the living room, presumably to enjoy his meal in private, he jokes to the camera before saying good night: “She’s very difficult, but there’s nobody like her.” Then he laughs and says she’s “not difficult.” Melania laughs.
While she maintains the disciplined poker face of the model she once was in every closeup, when she is interacting with other people, especially her husband, you get a glimpse of a warmer, less forbidding person.
Read the full op-ed over at The New York Post:
Miranda Devine: ‘Melania’ serves as a dainty middle finger to Trump’s media tormenters — who were wrong about everything https://t.co/mPAMTbJwAY pic.twitter.com/sftUdeNxf7
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) February 2, 2026