Audiences Embrace Melania Trump as Critics Miss the Mark Again

By: Miranda Devine | Commentary, New York Post

In a big blow to the Trump-deranged community, Melania Trump’s eponymous movie knocked the lights out on its opening weekend. It came in at No. 3 overall, and its $7 million box office take in three days is almost unheard of for a documentary.

“Melania” is crushing it on Rotten Tomatoes, too, with a 99% audience score on the “popcorno­meter” easily besting the sneering critics’ 10% on the Tomatometer ratings.

Like everything to do with Donald Trump’s two presidencies, whatever the leftist media’s opinion, the American public thinks the opposite. The inverse media-ometer is one of the most reliable gauges of public sentiment in this country.

“To say that ‘Melania’ is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies,” sniffed the Hollywood Reporter. Variety called it “a shameless infomercial.”

The first lady is “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda,” snarled the Independent. The Guardian panned the movie as “gilded trash” and “two hours of … pure, endless hell.”

Ha-ha. Haters gonna hate.

‘Highly recommend’

But that’s not what 99% of viewers said in hundreds of glowing audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Absolute class act documentary,” wrote Glynis. “Highly highly recommend.”

“Such a pleasure to see real class return to the White House,” wrote Deborah T.

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