{"id":32177,"date":"2026-08-08T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32177"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:39:55","slug":"donald-trumps-claim-about-wife-melania-comes-with-box-office-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32177","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Claim About Wife Melania Comes With Box-Office Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Despite \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d\u2018s humongous opening that shattered numerous box office records, <strong>Donald Trump <\/strong>has made it clear that his wife\u2019s documentary was the best movie of the year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/08\/07\/donald-trump-beautiful-waitress-story-las-vegas-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">POTUS<\/a> made the claim about \u201cMelania: Twenty Days to History\u201d during a recent speech, lauding his spouse\u2019s feature without providing any evidence to back his statement.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-donald-trump-says-melania-s-movie-is-no-1-movie-of-the-year\">Donald Trump says Melania\u2019s movie is \u2018No.1 Movie of the Year\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>While addressing a Las Vegas gathering on August 5, the president bragged about his partner\u2019s movie from earlier this year, calling it the \u201cNo. 1 movie of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump started by sharing his views on his wife\u2019s dislike of his transgender weightlifting impression, before describing Melania as a \u201cvery elegant\u201d woman (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/donald-trump-melania-documentary-video-b3028967.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Independent<\/a>). He continued to praise the First Lady by saying, \u201cShe did a movie, I think it\u2019s the number one movie of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Released in January this year, \u201cMelania: Twenty Days to History\u201d conveyed the story of the three weeks leading up to Trump\u2019s 2025 presidential inauguration from Melania\u2019s perspective. The Amazon feature secured a $7 million box-office debut upon its premiere, making it the best opening for a documentary in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the hype around the documentary on Donald Trump\u2019s wife plateaued shortly afterwards, with Melania concluding its run at the box office with a worldwide collection of $16.6 million, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt35291758\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Box Office Mojo<\/a>. Multiple movies have surpassed Melania\u2019s earnings since then, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day emerging as the biggest movie of the year so far. The Tom Holland-led feature has already gone past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt22084616\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1 billion mark<\/a> and is expected to break more records in the coming days. <\/p>\n<p>Melania\u2019s Amazon documentary also received a lukewarm reception upon its digital release, placing seventh in the top 10 streaming movies in its first week on Prime Video, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/data-center\/top-ten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/news\/1825784-donald-trump-melania-amazon-documentary-praise-no-backup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mandatory<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d\u2018s humongous opening that shattered numerous box office records, Donald Trump has made it clear that his wife\u2019s documentary was the best movie of the year. The POTUS made the claim about \u201cMelania: Twenty Days to History\u201d during a recent speech, lauding his spouse\u2019s feature without providing any evidence to back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2273887917.jpg?resize=1200,630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}