{"id":473972,"date":"2026-02-17T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:35:08","slug":"donald-trump-gives-painful-response-to-awkward-melania-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473972\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Gives Painful Response to Awkward Melania Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump scrambled to evade a simple question about whether he celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day with his wife, Melania.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump was asked whether he\u2019d done anything special on Feb. 14<\/a> with the first lady, whom he has been married to for more than 20 years, or whether he bothered to get her any flowers to celebrate the big day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI better not tell you that, goodbye everybody,\u201d Trump replied while sheepishly laughing. \u201cThat\u2019s the toughest question.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PresidentDonald Trump was speaking to reporters while flying back to D.C. from Florida, where he spent Presidents Day weekend. Nathan Howard\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Trump further swerved from any public display of affection toward his wife by promoting her formal role as first lady, as well as her vanity documentary, Melania.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of the fact that her movie is so successful. It\u2019s a tremendous hit, and she does a good job,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe does some very consequential work. I think you\u2019re going to see in the end that she\u2019s going to go down as one of the truly great first ladies when you see what she\u2019s doing with Russia, Ukraine,<\/a> and so many of the other things she\u2019s doing. She\u2019s done a good job,\u201d the president added. \u201cShe works very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another reporter on Air Force One then helped shift the conversation by asking whether Maryland Gov. Wes Moore<\/a> was invited to the upcoming National Governors Association event at the White House. Trump previously announced that Moore, the only Black governor in the U.S., was not invited to the typically bipartisan dinner, along with fellow Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed that Melania has been successful even though it suffered a huge decline<\/a> in box office sales in its third week.<\/p>\n

The documentary, which follows the first lady during the 20 days leading up to Trump\u2019s inauguration last January, saw a 62 percent drop in attendance compared to the previous week, according to data from IMDbPro.<\/p>\n

\"Donald“Melania” has only managed to recoup around a fifth of its total budget at the box office. raig Hudson\/Variety via Getty Images <\/p>\n

While the first lady\u2019s vanity project has grossed more than $15.4 million, it is a far cry from the $75 million Amazon spent to produce and promote the movie. Amazon MGM Studios distribution chief Kevin Wilson insisted that Melania will make up for its lackluster box office performance and help recover some of its losses when it appears on Amazon\u2019s Prime Video streaming service.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, theatrical and streaming represent two distinct value-creating moments that amplify the film\u2019s overall impact,\u201d Wilson said after Melania recorded a huge 67-percent drop-off <\/a>at the box office in its second weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump scrambled to evade a simple question about whether he celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day with his wife,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1072,88,2695,7182,189621],"class_list":{"0":"post-473972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-melania-trump","12":"tag-valentines-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}