You knew that the mainstream press would despise the Melania Trump movie, whether it turned out to be good or bad. I reviewed it Thursday night, and I quite enjoyed it, especially the second half.
I can understand if it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, however. There are no knights on horses, no dragons, no explosion-filled gunfights, no dazzling CGI sequences. What there is is a fascinating look at what it’s like behind the scenes at what is arguably the center of power on the planet: the White House.
It’s hardly surprising that the critics of many elitist publications trashed the movie, but the malevolence of all too much of their coverage is stunning, and says so much more about them than the American audience – who, as RedState’s Nick Arama reported, are headed to the theaters in large numbers.
Take, for instance, the hate spilled by Variety, the outlet that’s considered by some be the entertainment industry’s bible. “It should have been called 'Day of the Living Tradwife,'" the author wrote, then proceeded to mock her accent:
Melania came out of Slovenia as a teenage fashion model, but she was always less Brooke Shields than Nico, and now, at 55, in her Terminator sunglasses and thick mascara eyelashes and omnipresent four-inch pumps (she wears them in every scene, even when she’s just relaxing on the couch), she still has that frozen-for-the-camera hauteur, as well as the thick accent that blankets everything she says, giving it all the same emotional neutrality. “Can we do the lapel a little bit beeger?” she asks her designer, Hervé Pierre, and he, like everyone else in the room, reacts with a grin of jovial agreement, as if Marie Antoinette had just asked for a piece of cake.
Remember, these are the types that contend that every illegal alien is a saint, yet here they are demeaning a successful legal immigrant woman who speaks five languages. Wouldn't this be a 10 on the scale of discriminatory rhetoric?
It goes on in that tone, dripping with petty sarcasm, because of course it does. You almost forget this dude is writing about a movie because he treats it as an assault on democracy.
Not everyone feels that way, however:
Melania Trump's new Amazon MGM documentary is getting RAVE reviews! pic.twitter.com/JuaIlSScfi
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) February 1, 2026
Variety was far from the only publication to turn their reviews into political revenge fantasies. Here’s another major Tinseltown outlet, The Hollywood Reporter, who also couldn’t contain their venom:
The wait is over. Amazon’s $75 million corporate bribe, excuse me, documentary Melania has arrived in theaters, where it will surely play to the biggest audiences the Republican Party can buy. Not that they’ve bothered with that hotbed of liberalism known as New York City. There were just three other people present at the first opening-day showing at 42nd Street’s AMC Empire Theater.
Look at the numbers, dude. Maybe your theater was empty, but I can assure you that many others are not. In fact, at the screening I attended Thursday on the Left Coast, they had to open a second theater because the first filled up.
REALITY CHECK: Prepare for the Leftist Tantrums: the New 'Melania' Documentary Is Hitting Amazing Numbers
Just saw the movie Melania and it greatly exceeded my expectations ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (I clearly did not watch the same movie this leftist freak did, who called it "criminal" - https://t.co/CCvjhidagU)
— Rachel Alexander (@Rach_IC) February 1, 2026
It was so beautifully done, you felt so inspired the entire time. THIS is…
Here are some more observations by “unbiased” leftist critics:
"'Melania' is a level of insipid propaganda that almost resists review; it's so expected and utterly pointless," wrote Kevin Fallon from "The Daily Review."
The UK’s Independent got personal:
[The] First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda…
Of course, as any good lib would, the reviewer squeezed in the obligatory Nazi reference, bringing up the late Luftwaffe Commander‑in‑Chief Hermann Göring, as if he had anything at all to do with the mostly non-political film:
Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving – with the country on the verge of an irreparable schism – the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet.
There are many, many more instances of unhinged personal shots, scathing commentary, and gratuitous insults, yet relatively few of these "reviews" actually discuss the film itself. Was it the greatest movie of all time? No. Was it one of the worst? Absolutely not. As I wrote, it’s jaw-dropping watching the vast machinery of state in action, negotiating massive convoys just to get VIPs to their functions, organizing huge events — sometimes back to back — and ensuring a smooth-running White House, a task that requires hundreds of devoted, mostly non-partisan workers.
The film could have gotten nasty and political; when former President Joe Biden was seen wandering around hollow-eyed as if he had no idea where he was, for instance, they could have mocked him into next week. The film did not, nor did any of the featured players on screen.
Like with the movies Reagan and Sound of Freedom, the elitists are horrified that no one listens to them anymore. This was just an inoffensive movie, not an assault on our American values.
The success so far of the film is just yet another sign that millions of Americans no longer value out-of-touch elitists spewing venom and telling them how to think.
As of this writing, Melania has a 10 percent positive rating from professional critics on Rotten Tomatoes — and a 99 percent audience score. Take that, Variety et al.
