The media just cannot stop embarrassing themselves.
Spiteful journalists across the left-wing media have spent the last week mocking Melania Trump’s latest Amazon documentary, Melania, declaring it would be a box office bomb and humiliation for the First Lady and writing negative reviews.
You cant hate the Media enough…
The Hollywood Reporter: “Propaganda Doc”
The Atlantic: “A disgrace”
The Guardian: “Pure endless hell”
The Daily Beast: “Terrible”
The Independent: “To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to plumes of vape smoke”
The enemy of the people! pic.twitter.com/lYi7BS7Hvk
— C3 (@C_3C_3) January 31, 2026
However, receipts for the opening weekend are in and are already coming in far higher than expected.
BREAKING: First Lady Melania Trump just SOLD-OUT another movie theater for her new “MELANIA” movie in Michigan.
It sure would be a shame if everyone shared this and it went VIRAL!
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pic.twitter.com/KEKnElQNHI— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) January 31, 2026
According to The New York Times, it is the best-performing documentary film in the past 14 years!
Their report states:
Amazon’s gold-plated rollout for Melania Trump’s documentary is likely to result in opening-weekend ticket sales of roughly $8.1 million in the United States and Canada, box office analysts projected on Saturday.
That would give “Melania” the best start for a documentary (excluding concert films) in 14 years.
It would be a face-saving result for the first lady — just a few days ago, ticket sales were pacing at about $5 million — but not for Amazon, which spent an exorbitant $75 million to buy distribution rights to “Melania” and market its release.
Theater owners keep roughly 50 percent of ticket sales, meaning that Amazon would end the weekend with about $4 million to show for its investment.
MELANIA, the film.
#1 Highest Opening In 10 Yrs (Doc)
Loved By All – “A” CinemaScore pic.twitter.com/HTVM0Cu2Jv— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) January 31, 2026
Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter reports that it is the third best performing film of this weekend:
If that sunny forecast holds, the film will come in No. 3 behind fellow newcomers Send Help and Iron Lung after icing out Jason Statham’s new action pic, Shelter.
No one saw that coming, with many suggesting Melania was a bomb before it even opened based on empty, or nearly empty, seat maps in cinemas across the country.
The pic is galvanizing conservatives in the South and South-central part of the country, and specifically older females over the age of 55, who made up 72 percent of the opening-day audience.
And a stunning 78 percent of all ticket buyers were 55 and older.
The film, simply titled Melania, focuses on the run-up to her husband’s second inauguration and her role in its preparations.
Following its limited international rollout, the documentary will then be distributed exclusively by Amazon Prime Video.
