{"id":447082,"date":"2026-02-01T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:17:09","slug":"melania-trump-documentary-gets-hate-from-critics-praise-from-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447082\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump Documentary Gets Hate From Critics, Praise From Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump<\/a> might not win an Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards … but it seems her fans will loyally defend it — because the Rotten Tomatoes audience score is through the roof.<\/p>\n

“Melania” came out in theaters Friday … and early reviews show as sharp a split as any between the Democrat and Republican parties.<\/p>\n

At the time of publishing, critics gave the doc just a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes — put into context, just 2 of the 17 uploaded critic reviews are positive.<\/p>\n

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Two critics — one from the Irish Times and the other a writer for entertainment outlet Consequence — have already likened Brett Ratner<\/a>‘s work to that of Leni Riefenstahl … a German filmmaker who made propaganda for the Nazis.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, the Rotten Tomatoes audience score sits at 99% … with many reviewers lauding Melania for her patriotism and some even claiming their theaters erupted in cheers when the flick ended. Of course, Trump supporters likely make up a majority of the opening weekend audience — but still, the percentage is huge.<\/p>\n

“Melania” has already generated a ton of controversy … with Rolling Stone<\/a> reporting earlier this week that production of the film was a nightmare — with their sources alleging the production was chaotic and disorderly.<\/p>\n

Crew members made it clear Melania herself was kind to them … but alleged director Ratner — who has previously been accused of sexual misconduct — was a total tyrant on set.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo … with such a big divide between critics and audiences, we gotta ask — who do you believe???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump might not win an Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-447082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}