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Melania Trump’s much anticipated doco flops on premiere day

“Beautiful, emotional, fashionable and cinematic.”

That’s how Donald Trump has described the documentary about his wife, aptly titled Melania.

Amazon reportedly forked out almost $60 million for the rights to film the first lady for 20 days in the lead-up to the 2025 presidential inauguration.

However, the tech giant may rue that decision after looking at the box office takings.

Despite the US President himself claiming tickets are “very hard to get” most cinemas in Australia on release day only sold single digits to each session.

Only slightly fewer people than President Trump’s first inauguration.

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