Trump Wildly Claims ‘Melania’ Doc Was ‘Number One Movie of the Year’

President Donald Trump claimed Melania: Twenty Days to History, the 2026 documentary about his wife, Melania Trump, is the “number one movie of the year”—but offered little evidence to back that up.

The president made the claim while speaking about communism to a group of supporters in Las Vegas.

He said:

One of the things I’ve seen with Communism throughout the world, I see a lot of different places being president, I see a lot of results, a lot of bad results when you have the wrong people and the wrong ideology. But one of the things I see and you see it here, the blue states run by Democrats, everything’s filthy, dirty all the time. The cities stink, they smell, the sidewalks [are] loaded was horrible stuff. I don’t want to use the term because my wife … she hates it when I use the term. She doesn’t love it. She hates it when I imitate… no men in women’s sports. She hates it when I do the weight lifter. She said, ‘It’s not presidential.’ I said ‘Well, it may not be presidential, but I won the election in a landslide’, so I don’t know. Well, she’s very elegant. You know, Melania says hello to everybody. By the way, but she’s very, very elegant, she did a movie, I think it’s the number one movie of the year. She’s very elegant.

Melania: Twenty Days to History made $7 million in its opening weekend amid claims GOP operatives and candidates bought out entire theaters to support it. The movie cost Amazon MGM Studios $75 million to make. The documentary debuted as the third-most popular movie upon release, behind Send Help and The Iron Lung.

IMDB Pro’s Box Office Mojo lists 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11 as the documentary with the highest lifetime gross at $119,194,771. It is followed by March of the Penguins (2005), Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011), This Is It (2009), and Under the Sea 3D (2009). 2016: Obama’s America, is the sixth-highest grossing documentary of all time.

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