{"id":729889,"date":"2026-08-07T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729889\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:46:10","slug":"trump-claims-melania-documentary-is-number-one-movie-of-the-year-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729889\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Melania documentary is \u2018number one movie of the year\u2019 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> has claimed that Melania: Twenty Days to History is the \u201cnumber one movie of the year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US president made the claim, which he backed up with no evidence, during a speech in Las Vegas on Wednesday (5 August).<\/p>\n<p>After discussing his wife\u2019s dislike of his t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/trump-transgender-weightlifter-impression-pennsylvania-b3002310.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ransgender weightlifting impression<\/a>, which he does frequently, Mr Trump went on to praise his wife as an \u201celegant\u201d woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did a movie, I think it\u2019s the number one movie of the year.\u201d The film, released in January, focused on the 20 days leading up to the US president&#8217;s 2025 inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>As of August 2026, the highest-grossing film of the year is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which has made over $1bn worldwide. In its opening weekend, Melania: Twenty Days to History made $7m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has claimed that Melania: Twenty Days to History is the \u201cnumber one movie of the year\u201d.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,40018,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-file-photo","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729889","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=729889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}