{"id":68745,"date":"2026-01-28T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68745"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:48:32","slug":"melania-trump-crocumentary-crew-want-their-names-removed-from-credits-and-hope-the-film-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68745","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump Crocumentary Crew Want Their Names Removed From Credits and Hope the Film Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The primary occupation of Donald Trump for the past couple of decades has been to host reality programs on television and to organize grifting operations to enrich himself. And that includes the time that he has been occupying the White House. He is entirely consumed with PR and self-promotion to the detriment of everything else that he pretends to engage in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Melania Trump Crocumentary Crew Want Their Names Removed From Credits and Hope the Film Flops%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68745\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Melania Trump Crocumentary Crew Want Their Names Removed From Credits and Hope the Film Flops%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68745\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-melania-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Baby and Melania Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest scam in Trump&#8217;s bag of tricks is an alleged <em>&#8220;documentary&#8221;<\/em> revealing the private life of First Lady Melania Trump. The film is executive produced by Melania herself, and it is being produced and distributed by Trump suck-up, Jeff Bezos, and his Amazon Studios. So it can hardly be presented as an independent record of Trump&#8217;s mistress and third wife. Naturally, it&#8217;s already getting rave reviews from Trump&#8217;s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, who haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68500\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Trump-Fluffers Preview \u2013 and Gush Over \u2013 the New Melania Trump Crocumentary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In advance of the film&#8217;s release on Friday, reports are circulating about the regrets that many of the crew members have after working on the project. Their participation is turning out to be a source of shame, and they are anxious to distance themselves from it completely. As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/obsessed\/ashamed-melania-crew-members-hope-documentary-flops\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported by The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Rolling Stone reports that two-thirds of Melania\u2019s New York crew requested that their names not be added to the film\u2019s credits. [&#8230;] Another told the publication they\u2019re hoping the film &#8211; which required &#8216;really long hours,&#8217; in a &#8216;highly disorganized&#8217; and &#8216;very&#8217; chaotic environment &#8211; &#8216;flops.'&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One Melania crew member told Rolling Stone that [director Brett] Ratner was &#8216;slimy.&#8217; [&#8230;] Melania is the Rush Hour director\u2019s first film following the sexual assault allegations that saw him ousted from Hollywood. He has denied any wrongdoing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s hardly a vote of confidence. Trump is planning to premiere the film &#8211; which Bezos paid $40 million for the rights to, and another $35 million for promotion &#8211; at the Kennedy Center. Partly because Trump demolished the White House theater that was located in the East Wing, and partly because he&#8217;s using the Kennedy Center as his personal entertainment complex. Which is why <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/20\/nx-s1-5675192\/kennedy-center-canceled-performances\" target=\"_blank\">so many entertainers have refused to perform there<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the film is unlikely to provide much, if any, return on that $75 million investment. Ticket pre-sales have been pitifully lacking and, in some place, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2026\/01\/27\/trump-says-the-melania-movie-is-selling-out-fast-but-is-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost nonexistent<\/a><\/strong>. Never mind <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/34634\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s boast<\/a><\/strong> (aka lie) on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68571\" target=\"_blank\">his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, that <em>&#8220;the Movie is a MUST WATCH. Get your tickets today &#8211; Selling out FAST!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to assume that this history making documentary will not include much of Melania&#8217;s actual history. For instance, her many nude photo shoots, her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, her disparaging remarks about Christmas, her phony <em>&#8220;Einstein&#8221;<\/em> visa, her chain migration for her family members and anchor babies, nor the fact that she doesn&#8217;t live with Donald at the White House or Mar-a-Lago, preferring to spend most of her time in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>None of that, though, will dampen the party for Trump and his MAGA cult comrades, who will gather to celebrate the fluff film in luxury while the rest of the country is struggling to make ends meet, suffering through a massive winter storm, and mourning the loss of two honorable citizens who were murdered by Trump&#8217;s ICE thugs. Which is business as usual for Trump, who has never shown any ability to relate to, or care about, the people he allegedly serves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE I:<\/strong> Pre-sales for the Melania movie are still in single digits. And now there is more evidence for why. She is ranked dead last in a survey of American First Ladies. A position she shares with her husband, who ranks last in surveys of presidents.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mdl27bt5uz2z\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiconrvgdhu2tnpn774q5cciikyfmbarfz36r5fsfoa57hsqe2zsde\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Enten: &#34;Historical critics don&#39;t really like Melania Trump either. Just take a look, historians&#39; First Lady rankings &#8212; dead last! Melania Trump&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mdl27bt5uz2z?ref_src=embed\">2026-01-29T14:55:00.496Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE II:<\/strong> The Melania opening weekend was a disaster. But of course, Trump and Fox News are lying about it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHAT A SURPRISE&#8230;FOX NEWS IS LYING!<\/p>\n<p>The Melania CROCumentary opening weekend earned barely 20% of what the Taylor Swift documentary did last year. Also, Trump told the same lie on Truth(less) (anti)Social. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gKglf5MGnv\">https:\/\/t.co\/gKglf5MGnv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kFJtycXFno\">pic.twitter.com\/kFJtycXFno<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/2018037611412230359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68687\" target=\"_blank\">HOLY CR*P! Trump Floats Executive Order to Dictate to TV Networks What They Are Allowed to Air<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68345\" target=\"_blank\">Does Trump\u2019s Racist Pledge to Deport Naturalized American Citizens Include Melania?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64605\" target=\"_blank\">Two New Crockumentaries About January 6th and Melania Show Trump\u2019s Efforts to Rewrite History<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary occupation of Donald Trump for the past couple of decades has been to host reality programs on television and to organize grifting operations to enrich himself. And that includes the time that he has been occupying the White House. He is entirely consumed with PR and self-promotion to the detriment of everything else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1,8],"tags":[554,1307,1180,1133],"class_list":["post-68745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-melania-trump","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-melania-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hSN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68500,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68500","url_meta":{"origin":68745,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Trump-Fluffers Preview &#8211; and Gush Over &#8211; the New Melania Trump Crocumentary","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/17\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"If Donald Trump spent half as much time running the country as he does on disseminating dishonest and self-serving propaganda, the country would be...well, much worse off than it is now. 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