Melania praises life under communism while plugging the sequel to her -$65M box office bomb
Melania Tr*mp dropped by Fox & Friends this week to discuss her mysterious new female “empowerment” venture, promote her upcoming docuseries nobody asked for, and wax nostalgic about how delightful it was to grow up in Eastern Europe under authoritarian rule. When asked about her new two-part docuseries being release by Amazon later this year, […]
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Melania Tr*mp dropped by Fox & Friends this week to discuss her mysterious new female “empowerment” venture, promote her upcoming docuseries nobody asked for, and wax nostalgic about how delightful it was to grow up in Eastern Europe under authoritarian rule.
When asked about her new two-part docuseries being release by Amazon later this year, the first lady said it’s not just a rehash of her documentary MELANIA, which bellyflopped at the box office earlier this year… to the tune of -$65 million.
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“It will be very different what is in the movie,” she promised. “It’s more conversation one-on-one with me.”
She continued, “So when I was traveling and doing all of the filming, the director was asking me questions, and there’s some private questions that I will answer that people never heard before, so it’s kind of exciting.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Melania was asked whether Eastern Europeans have a greater appreciation for freedom than Americans. That’s when she started gushing about living under the iron fist of benevolent dictator Josip Broz Tito as a child.
“I grew up under communism, and actually, I didn’t miss anything,” she said. “I feel I had very beautiful childhood.”
Quick history lesson… Melania was born in 1970 and grew up in socialist Yugoslavia, a communist-led federation made up of six republics, including her native Slovenia. Unlike the Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia followed its own path under Tito, who used terror, violence, censorship, and one-party dominance to maintain control for over 35 years, from late 1944 until his death in May 1980.
While Melania did admit that, yeah, sure, living under communism has some drawbacks–“You’re watched over what you do. It’s not as free as here in United States”–at the end of the day, she didn’t think it was all that bad.
“My parents provide beautiful childhood for my family,” she recalled with fondness.
It’s a fascinating perspective, especially when you consider her 80-year-old husband has spent the ramp-up to this year’s midterms warning about how the threat of communism is greater than ever.
He’s criticized the Democratic Party for “becoming a communist party” and labeled some Democrats “hardcore, godless communists” for supporting things like, you know, trans healthcare and LGBTQ+ rights.
In his 4th of July Fourth address, Tr*mp said: “Communism is a loser and it always will be. … Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not gonna let it happen.”
Anyway, back to Melania’s upcoming docuseries… if you can even call two episodes a “series.”
The first lady didn’t say exactly when it would be released. In fact, she gave three answers different answers: “any day,” “maybe November,” and “we don’t have an exact date yet.” But what we do know is it’s once again being distributed by Amazon and that accused sexual predator/Jeffrey Epstein buddy Brett Ratner is the director.
In August, Ratner took to Instagram to gush about how he couldn’t “wait to share with everyone around the world the next two chapters of Melania, the docuseries!”
Amazon invested $75 million into Melania’s documentary, which ended up making less than $17 million at the international box office. Theaters generally keep 50% of box office revenue, which means Amazon only made $9 million off the film, generating an estimated net theatrical loss of roughly $65 million.
And yet, Amazon is about to dump another fortune into the sequel. Because apparently, like America in 2024, the streamer insists on paying for a second term.
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