During a rally in Clarksville on Monday, Trump praised first lady Melania Trump’s documentary“Melania,”calling it the number one movie of the year, then immediately joked that“there’s only room for one star in the family.”The line landed with a crowd that laughed, but social media did not.
The box office tells a different story than the rally stage. The Brett Ratner-directed film opened January 30 with about $7 million, placing third behind“Send Help”and“Iron Lung,”and grossed roughly $16.7 million total. That’s against Amazon’s $40 million rights deal plus about $35 million in marketing, making it the most expensive documentary ever made and, by the numbers, a flop.
Monday’s rally marked the second time in four days Trump turned his marriage into material, following an October 7 event in San Antonio where he said Melania calls him“sir.”Melania has not publicly responded to his latest remarks. So what do you think: does this read as humor, or something a little more revealing?
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