President Donald Trump Claims Melania Is A Box Office Suc...
Donald Trump has boasted that Melania, the documentary about his wife, is a success, but the box office numbers and other objective metri...
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So get this: Donald Trump has boasted that Melania, the documentary about his wife, is a success, but the box office numbers and other objective metrics say otherwise.
Movies Documentaries President Donald Trump Claims Melania Is A Box Office Success – The Facts Say Otherwise By Ryan Scott Feb. 20, 2026 1:18 pm EST Amazon MGM Studios President Donald Trump just claimed that “Melania,” the documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, has been successful. (it feels like chaos)
Amazon ( which purchased MGM for $8.
The Details
5 billion in 2022 ) paid a lot of money for this documentary, which complicates Trump’s boastful claims about its performance. At Trump’s recent “Board of Peace” event in Washington D.
, he claimed (via the Daily Beast ) that “Melania” was successful and that the subject of that documentary, his wife Melania Trump, is now a big movie star. Here’s what Trump had to say: “She has a successful movie out right now, like number one.
Why This Matters
Big movie star, and I always say it’s trouble, because I always say there’s not room in one family for two stars. I told her that we can’t have two stars in one family, so I don’t know what that means, but it’s not, it’s not good. ” Trump has made a few cameos in big movies and was the host of “The Apprentice” for years, so he knows a thing or two about stardom.
This is exactly the kind of news that gets fans excited or concerned.
Key Takeaways
- That dropped, his claims about “Melania” are objectively wrong.
- There’s no traditional metric that could be applied to this film to justify calling it “successful.
- ” It’s also never been number one at the box office and is unlikely to ever achieve that status before the end of its run.
- Simply going off the numbers, the movie has been a theatrical flop .
The Bottom Line
1 million domestically, well behind that weekend’s other newcomers: “Send Help” ($19. 1 million) and “Iron Lung” ($17.
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