Melania trump

As America stayed inside at the weekend, terrified and frozen, the White House hosted its own movie night: the first-ever screening of Melania, an insider-access documentary about the First Lady, directed by the disgraced Brett Ratner. This film that old-school Hollywood wouldn’t touch with a barge-pole is coming to theaters everywhere on Friday, whether you see it or not. The Hollywood Reporter, which met the devil at a crossroads in exchange for access, posted exclusive photos of the event, which included “black-tied VIPs, monogrammed popcorn tubs and a military band playing movie tunes”, as well as bespoke black-and-white cookies bearing Melania’s name. The band actually played “Melania’s Waltz,” a special

“Here ve go again” says Melania Trump to the camera at the start of the new trailer for MELANIA – a feature documentary on the First Lady from Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Studios. This House of Cards-style breaking of the fourth wall seems to promise a certain intrigue in the movie to come.  The trailer, which is soundtracked an Amadeus-esque orchestral score, has a few eyebrow-raising moments, like when the First Lady interrupts her husband’s rehearsal for a speech. “My proudest legacy will be that of peacemaker” says Trump. “Peacemaker and unifier,” she corrects him. She also teases Trump (who she calls “Mr. President”) about not having watched one of his broadcasts. “Ya, I will watch it on

The First Lady is kindly asking Hunter to apologize for saying she met Trump through Epstein

While Cockburn has no quibbles with Melania, this move does bear a whiff of kowtowing to Dear Leader

The former Slovenian supermodel clearly has no great love for Vladimir Putin

The hawks in Washington are jubilant, the MAGA restrainers, as they refer to themselves, aghast

His mystique appears entirely deliberate

‘As we enter our 249th year America is winning, winning, winning, like never before’

Her absence turned into a pretty lucrative enterprise

It’s the first initiative FLOTUS has backed in the second term