Melania Trump’s self-titled documentary is getting the celebrity-presidential remedy, it appears.
In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, “Melania,” a movie helmed by exiled Hollywood director Brett Ratner that chronicles the primary girl’s preparation to return to the White Home alongside her husband, will get a pink carpet premiere at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts—or, relatively, the newly named Trump-Kennedy Middle.
That’s the newest addition to an ongoing listing of questionable strikes surrounding the cinematic fluff piece.
When Amazon MGM Studios bought the rights to the documentary in January 2025, critics have been fast to name the deal a $40 million bribe from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has spent the previous 12 months attempting to worm his method again into President Donald Trump’s good graces.
Associated | Washington Publish loses employees, readers, and cash as Bezos bends to Trump
As for Melania, trying busy in entrance of a digicam is nice publicity for the serially absent first girl.
Ratner is positioning himself for an enormous transfer off of Hollywood’s blacklist. Through the peak of the “Me Too” motion, the “Rush Hour” director confronted a number of accusations of sexual assault from varied actresses. He has denied all the claims.
Six ladies got here ahead in 2017, together with actress Olivia Munn, accusing him of doing issues like masturbating in entrance of them or forcing oral intercourse.
Accused sexual predator Brett Ratner directed “Melania” and appeared within the lately launched Epstein recordsdata.
The disgraced director appeared within the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata launched on Friday. Ratner is seen smiling ear to ear in an undated photograph with Jean-Luc Brunel, the late French modeling agent and longtime Epstein affiliate.
Brunel died by suicide in a Paris jail cell in 2022 whereas dealing with fees for supplying minors to accused intercourse trafficker Epstein and for allegedly raping a minor.
Ratner had not publicly commented on the Epstein-linked photograph as of Tuesday afternoon.
Regardless of Ratner’s notoriety, the president has been completely satisfied to disregard the director’s questionable previous.
Donald Trump has gone as far to make use of his sway on billionaire Larry Ellison’s Paramount Skydance—who will quickly take over the U.S. buyout of TikTok—to get Ratner a film deal for a “Rush Hour 4.”
As for the upcoming premiere, it stays to be seen if Trump’s identify will nonetheless be plastered on the Kennedy Middle when the movie is launched on Jan. 30, 2026.
Associated | ‘Melania’ documentary trailer prompts some severe side-eye
In any case, the administration is already dealing with a lawsuit from Home Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Kennedy Middle board member who mentioned the vote to rename the middle was not unanimous and dissenters have been silenced.
However, hey, a “documentary” quickly to stream on Amazon Prime is one hell of a Christmas current for Ratner and the attention-loving Trump household.
