First lady’s big-screen documentary premieres with criticisms over $28m payday and questions over relevancy
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onald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today if you hadn’t met your wife?” a reporter asked the US president.
Trump smiled and said: “He’s asking me a very dangerous question!” He went on to praise his wife without answering. When the reporter put the same question to Melania, she ventured: “Well, we will all be in different places, I guess.” With a nervous laugh, she turned to look at Trump and asked, “Right?”
The couple were attending Thursday night’s premiere of Melania, a big-budget documentary billed as an “unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look” at the first lady’s return to the White House – but dismissed by critics as a $75m vanity project and likely box office flop.
