{"id":411540,"date":"2026-02-06T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:12:08","slug":"melanias-rotten-tomatoes-audience-score-not-bots-says-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411540\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania’s Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Not Bots, Says Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRotten Tomatoes<\/a>\u2018 parent company Versant is denying any tampering is going on with the \u201cMelania<\/a>\u201d audience scores on the review aggregator website. The Amazon MGM-backed documentary has a 99% audience score<\/a> compared to a disastrous 7% critics score as of the Friday morning heading into \u201cMelania\u2019s\u201d second weekend of release. The huge divide between the scores has led many to wonder if MAGA-supported bots are being used to drive up the audience score.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere has been no bot manipulation on the audience reviews for the \u2018Melania\u2019 documentary,\u201d Versant said in a statement to Variety. \u201cReviews displayed on the Popcornmeter are VERIFIED reviews, meaning it has been verified that users have bought a ticket to the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJimmy Kimmel questioned the documentary\u2019s audience scores<\/a> during his Feb. 4 monologue when he said: \u201cAs of tonight, Melania has a score of 5% on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics. That is very low. To put that in perspective, that is 1% lower than \u2018Gigli.\u2019 The audience score for\u00a0\u2018Melania\u2019\u00a0is 99% positive, which is 1% higher than\u00a0\u2018The Godfather.\u2019 And I\u2019m sure Donald J. Corleone had nothing to do with that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel added, \u201cWe need to get to the bottom of this. Send in Tulsi Gabbard and the FBI! Seize the ticket machines, the popcorn buckets, the box office receipts, at every multiplex in America!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cMelania Trump\u2019s new documentary is now the film with the biggest disparity between critic and audience reviews in Rotten Tomatoes history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMelania,\u201d directed by Brett Ratner, follows Melania Trump in the 20 days leading up to her husband Donald\u2019s second presidential inauguration. The film opened to $7 million domestically, a strong start for a documentary feature but not the best start for a movie that Amazon bought for $40 million and then spent $35 million to market.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs\u00a0Variety\u00a0reported<\/a>, the audience for \u201cMelania\u201d during its opening weekend was 72% female and 83% over the age of 45. Nearly 75% of ticket buyers were white, according to PostTrak data.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotten Tomatoes\u2018 parent company Versant is denying any tampering is going on with the \u201cMelania\u201d audience scores on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,150028,2839,18685,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-411540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-melania","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-rotten-tomatoes","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}