We Watched Melanias $40M Documentary So You Dont Have To

➡ The podcast “Under the Docs” reviews a 2026 documentary about Melania Trump, which was filmed during the 2024 presidential elections. The hosts criticize the documentary for focusing too much on Melania’s fashion choices and not enough on her political contributions. They also discuss the controversy surrounding the documentary’s director, Brett Ratner, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. Despite their criticisms, the hosts acknowledge that the documentary provides a unique insight into Melania’s life and role as First Lady.
➡ The article discusses a documentary about a woman’s life, which was expected to show her humanitarian efforts but instead focused on her luxurious lifestyle and fashion choices. The author criticizes the film for being tone-deaf and detached from the realities of ordinary people. The documentary, funded by Amazon, was not financially successful and the author suggests it may have been a political move. The woman had final say on the film’s content, which the author believes resulted in a lack of substance and a focus on superficial aspects of her life.
➡ The speaker discusses a documentary about Melania Trump, expressing disappointment and labeling it as boring and unimpressive. Despite initial curiosity, the speaker found the film to be a waste of time and money, even suggesting it negatively impacted their view of Melania. The speaker also criticizes the film’s high audience rating, contrasting it with their own negative experience and the low critic scores. They conclude by promoting various websites and a song.

We get Melania picking out dresses and napkins for about two hours and then in the end credits at the very end it says something about her helping get like a hostage back or something. There you go. There’s the Melania documentary. They call it the Docs. Under the Docs. Under the Docs. Yeah, Under the Docs. Under the Docs. Ahoy, mateys! This is Under the Docs with Paranoid American and Uncle Sean charting through treacherous waves at documentaries to let you know do they sink or do they swim? Have a Doc you want us to review? Contact us at UndertheDocs.com, ParanoidAmerican.com or KillTheMockingBirds.com and don’t forget to like, subscribe and share the show.

Today’s show we’re going to be watching Melania or actually we already did watch it. We should be talking about it. This is a documentary that just came out this year, 2026. It was filmed over the 2024 presidential elections and then leading up into the very first inauguration. And I got to say, man, before we even get into all this, this will absolutely move you. This documentary, I was going in completely blind. I was thinking there’s either going to be a puff piece or like just some silly documentary where nothing actually happens. And I’m floored. We learned so much about the inner workings of the president’s mind of Melania.

What a remarkable person. You know, strap in because this is going to be a wild one. All right. Plot in the course for this one. It’s going to be a little bit rough that we get into so many different angles. And let me just restate that going into this, you see the ratings and it’s basically zero for the critics and then like 100% for audience ratings. So I was thinking either there was some review bombing or some like review anti bombing. I don’t know what the opposite of that one was like botnets or something. I went into this expecting just an absolute puff piece that was going to play up the importance of Melania that was going to be like, look, she’s been doing all these important things and all these different initiatives.

And she’s not just some random lady that just is like interested in fashion and just talks to fashion designers like 24 seven. And the only thing she cares about is clothes and appearances. That’s what I was expecting to go into it. And that’s exactly what it was. It just seemed completely vapid and she just talks about fashion the entire time. And there’s really no politics in it. And there you go. The end. That’s the end of the plot. And you know, they had the scoring. It was critics audience in the queue, right? Queue was just off the charts.

Like secret code black and white. Like I’m like, Oh my God, it was like such a pretentious person that you had to watch walk around like, Oh, let all my servants come around and pick my pet suit. And you’re like, do you look like the grim reaper man? Like walking out of here. I, I was just like, I never really cared about Melania whatsoever. I’m like, but for me watching it now, I’m like, I do not like you. I’m like, now I see you as just like this spoiled rich, like this elitist that I hate.

And thanks for shoving it in my face. We’re just stupid big gold door. Oh, and there, there go all of the followers. I can, I can actually hear them leaving right now since you’re not on board with the queue narrative here. And let’s just speaking of queue, let’s just point out to the, this documentary was directed and produced by a guy named Brett Ratner. Which coincidentally, the day this dropped, this can’t be coincidence. The day that this documentary came out was also the same day that images of Ratner and Jeffrey Epstein and some women were released about Melania.

But like, it’s just literally them in the same room hugging up on girls with like the faces all blacked out. So not only was he in the Epstein files, he also got swept Brett Ratner got swept up in the me too movement in like 2017 2018 who didn’t write like almost every director in Hollywood was getting swept up in this, but his was because six different women came forward. Two of them, you might’ve heard of Olivia Munn was one of them and Natasha Hendridge from the species of very great cinematic production there. But the species movies, and they both said that Ratner was basically forcing people to do things in order to get in the positions and then would you would like walk into his like, hey, come in here, we need to review the script.

And you’d walk in and he’d be doing ungodly things with themselves. So this is the director producer of this documentary. It’s also the highest paid documentary of all time, I believe Amazon and HBO and a few other companies went into a bidding war over Melania. Amazon won with a $40 million to commission this and it was originally going to be entire docu-series. It was going to start with a documentary and then turn into like an ongoing series of a day in the life of the first lady. So here’s what happens. I actually have an entire list.

It starts out and we get Melania picking out dresses and napkins for about two hours. And then in the end credits at the very end, it says something about her helping get like a hostage back or something. There you go. That there’s there’s the Melania documentary. Well, the one part that I triggered me and kind of got me going is like, I’m like, they’re always talking about this stuff where we don’t want like, so all these anti bullying laws that you see in like the UK and France and all this stuff. And then they’re talking about it.

Yeah, that’s what they want. You’re like, okay, bro, this is the same state that we’re talking about. This is where like if my frustration of hating both sides like gets to me because you’re like one every now and then I’m like, oh, I think they’re getting it. And then I’m like, oh, they’re not like no matter what. It’s like, oh, I think they finally they’re breaking through guys. They know it’s all bull crap. And they’re like, oh, only they think one team is bull crap. And you’re like, okay. And that’s what this whole piece is. It made it showed you like a look at you peasants.

This is how we walk around and we are redefining which they keep trying to say I’m redefining the first lady role, right? And then she talks about like, oh, she’s secretive. She doesn’t want to be on camera like all these. And I’m like, I thought we were trying to get transparency, man. Like no transparency. We’re going to be more secretive. And the other thing they try to do a lot of this documentary, they’re kind of making it seem like she can ring in Donald, right? Like he’s having a bad day. She’s like, he goes to have you make that decision, right? They’re putting it into perspective of like where she has his ear big time.

I don’t, I don’t know why this documentary exists. I don’t know why the project existed. I don’t know what they thought they were doing when they went into doing this. Even if it had some controversy, it would have been a little more interesting. For example, I find it endlessly fascinating. The contrast between Melania picking up anti bullying as her thing. And then Donald Trump’s like, look at that fat retard. Like who’s going to vote for that idiot, right? Like the most off the cuff horrific things that he says that people are like, we don’t say those words anymore, sir.

He’s like, why? What are you retarded? You know, and then, and then she’ll come out the next day and talk about anti bullying initiatives. I’m not, I’m not trying to like say that she’s a hypocrite and I’m not like condemning the president for. Just being completely off the cuff and saying dumb things constantly. But the fact that these two things together where it’s like the same day that he was like, yeah, I’m not going to take a question for you. You’re too fat. How about you? The hot one next to her, right? Like that’s the kind of level we get from the president.

And then the president’s wife is out here telling you not to bully people. It just, it blows my mind that these are two like, like variables in the same equation somehow. And I think they would have did a better service of Melania if they would have like show her going to like homeless centers. And no, they had the only thing was the little besides her setting up for the inauguration and kind of getting her dress. Like, what are you going to wear? I’m not sure. It was basically plotted around what are you going to wear? I’m going to have to blow them out of the water because the last time I, everybody was talking about me, even Trump is like, yeah, they were talking about her.

You know what I’m saying? They really liked her dress. Like, what are you going to do? And they make that like, Oh, what is she going to do with her dress? And they should have had her more because even when she talks to like the Israeli hostage, it’s just funny because she walks in and it doesn’t look personal. You show her getting patted down and like the secret service walking in. Don’t show that part, right? You’re not going to look great. You put that in the film where they’re like, Oh, I just was a hostage.

But now I have to be treated like a terrorist coming in here. Like, I’ll pat you down and try not to kill a Milani or anything like that. So I think it was just so tone deaf. It was completely tone deaf. They did not understand where the people stand. And unfortunately I know that the red team is going to be like, Oh, I love this film. It was so great. And I’m like, dude, this is the stuff we’ve been talking about that we hate about these elitist and they’re just rubbing it in our face. And you’re going to be like, yeah, but this is different.

I don’t, I don’t know if I’ve got as much hate on this one. I don’t know if it like, add a touch a hundred percent. I’m not even sure if she is aware enough of anyone’s plights or struggles to like rub their face in it. I think that that might be like a level beyond it’s almost to the same level. And I don’t, I don’t think this was a Trump interview, but you’ve seen similar ones where they’ll go and ask like politicians and celebrities like, Hey, how much do you think a gallon of milk costs? And, and like, so we’ll be like, Oh no, 40 bucks.

You know, like, like they’re so detached from like how much things cost for normal people. Like, I don’t know a hundred dollars for a gallon of milk. I don’t know. I got seems about reasonable, right? A hundred bucks. Um, like this is two hours of that. This is two hours. And again, going into this, I, 100% was like, all right, here we go. Uh, they, they have their own friend, like produce and direct this thing. Melania got ultimate creative direction. She got final say in the edits. They get $40 million for Amazon to put this thing together.

Let’s see what kind of propaganda I a hundred percent was expecting to be like, here she is helping Israeli kids. Here she is helping Palestinian kids. Here she is helping someone in Nigeria. Like I thought it was just going to be her on the road. What was like, um, when the, the new Royal couple like go on their world tour, like look at all these great things we’re doing for humanity and organic flowers and all this, but it’s literally just her picking out dresses and napkins for a full two hours. And then the credits end. And then in the credits, someone at some point was like crap.

Shouldn’t we have like mentioned something about her helping a person? Somewhere along the line. And they literally just like, ah, we’ll just throw a sentence in at the end and they do. And that’s, that’s the whole entire thing. Hidden treasures and overboard moments. What’s, what’s the hidden treasure in this documentary? I guess the hidden treasure would be just like, you get to be exposed that it’s same old, same old, right? Like I guess it’s kind of refreshing that she’s just like, yeah, this is what I do. Like, cause I’m with you. I thought I was going to be like showing her in raggedy clothes, like handing out food.

And you’re like, she kind of went out there. I’ll give her credit. She’s just like, yeah, I do whatever I want, man. Like it was American game of thrones, right? You’re going around like all these huge leaders are just talking to other powerful people, not caring about us at all. And I’m like, I mean, I guess props for not giving a crap and doing whatever you want the, I guess, yeah. Hidden treasure overboard. It’s all, it’s all the same, right? Like there’s only two things happen in this documentary. It starts and then it ends. And that’s kind of the whole premise of it.

But it’s so, again, like a weird tone deaf version of it is that even when she’s focusing on what dress she wants and like alterations that she wants, it’s surreal because she’s in Trump tower, like in this like room full of gold. And there’s these two Asians that are like standing silently on the side, like, like, do not talk to them, do not look at them. And then she’ll talk to like her gay European dress designers slash like assistant or whatever, like her personal style assistant. And she’ll tell him like, I want to have this cut here and here and here.

He’s like, yes, he has anything you want. And then the camera pans to him running over to these two Asians and then just telling them like she wants to have a cut. And I’m watching this, like, didn’t they hear her also say this? Like, why is this guy even running between these? And more importantly, why is this in the documentary? Why did the documentary just zoom in to the European fashion assistant and show him turning off? Like, isn’t this the part where we’re supposed to see her carrying like a baby like across the Saharan desert to like a UN food station? But instead, it’s her telling her European assistant to go and tell the Asian assistants how to like hem the dress and then they go and do it like she runs and she cuts it and she brings it back to the gay guy.

The guy brings it back to Melania. And then you’re like, that was 20 minutes of this documentary. What did I just learn? Yeah. And that was the scene to me where they’re supposed to be like, no, let them speak, right? She’s supposed to like speak, stand up for them or something. But no, it was like true elitist form. Like it’s almost like they didn’t even know because I don’t think like, again, when I’m saying they put it in our face and stuff like that, I don’t think it’s an intentional thing. I think it’s just how people are like, I think she’s so self-absorbed that they’re like, honey, we’re going to make a documentary about you.

And she’s like, yeah, I am important. Right. He was like, you know what? And it just reminded me again, like of all these like Game of Thrones and medieval times of where people come around and they’re like, you know, the queens are like, give some food to the peasants. That’s what we should do. And you’re like, like, but then they’re like roaming around, having tea time, just like more worried about how they’re perceived and look. Then anything else, because the whole time she’s talking about her upbringing and, you know, being a model and how hard it was.

And then you’re just like, dude, you had it pretty easy, man. Like in all comparisons, especially now. And it almost felt like Donald was just like, hey, I want you to like, I want you to know that I love you a lot. Here’s a bunch of money so you can make a film about yourself. Right. Like here’s the opportunity for you to cement your legacy with me, honey. You know, because without you, I’m nothing. But it was actually Bezos money. That was Amazon’s 40 million dollars that went into this and ended up grossing, I think, somewhere around like 16 million out of that 40.

So Amazon probably lost a little bit on this. Maybe this is just in the open espionage. This is like a bribe where Amazon was like, hey, hey, Republican Party slash Trump candidacy. Here’s 40 million dollars to make a documentary. You know what I mean? And part of me, too, is just imagining that she had creative call on like edits and all the final edits and stuff on this documentary. I wonder if there was a moment when they’re in the edit booth and Brett Ratner or whoever is in charge of this is showing her like, OK. And here you are helping refugees.

And she’s like, no, I don’t like that dress. Cut that scene. You’re like, OK, well, here you are doing another humanitarian age. Like, no, the lighting doesn’t look very good on my face there. Cut that. And then at a certain point, it’s like, ma’am, I don’t know if you realize this, but this two hour documentary, it basically is just you inside Trump Tower and inside of like balls talking about napkins and hors d’oeuvres. Like maybe we should add some of the humanitarian shots like, no, no, no, we don’t need any of that. And imagine at one point someone’s just like, just let her just let her do whatever she wants and have whatever she wants.

And then they contact Donald. They’re like, Donald, I just need to let you know. Ahead of time, man, this might not be perceived very well. And he’s like, yeah, it’s great. Like she hasn’t bugged me in about two months now. Like here’s another 40 millions. Make a docu-series out of it. No, I could totally see that, man. And I will say one of the hidden treasures, but it’s not really a hidden treasure. And it’s like for me that I can point out to people, because I saw as like where I’ve said a long time ago, I’m like, Trump is a Democrat, bro.

He was a lifelong Democrat. And you can see some of the policies through Melania’s things that she’s attacking is like, oh, that’s a Democrat policy. Not that I’m for the Republicans either. But like, let’s call a spade a spade. And it does show you a little bit more insight of like, yes, see, this is his style, bro. This is not a traditional Republican ain’t no dummy. I’ll tell you what. All right, sink or swim, one of the most powerful, moving documentaries of our lifetime. What do you give this a sink or a swim? I got to say, like, I never thought I could look at the first lady in another light, right? Where that she’s so pivotal to moving this.

No, I absolutely sink for me, man. It was a puff piece. It was boring. It was not something I could get into, man. Like even my girlfriend, Washington, when she’s been dying, we almost went to the movie theaters. I will say when we were first looking into this, it was like we couldn’t find it online anywhere. It was only in theaters. I mean, you were like, man, maybe we should just go to like the theater and just see it so we can be early on this. God, I’m happy we didn’t. I would have been so like, if you think I’m mad now, if I drove to the theater and paid, it doesn’t matter if I paid five bucks or not, I don’t care.

Plus, you know, I’ve got to get snacks and probably going to be lit. And so I’m going to get some snacks. I’m going to pay 40 bucks to watch this crap. Like, oh, what one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. And I’m not even my girlfriend was like, this is terrible. She’s like, so it’s a sink, right? I’m like, absolutely. So, yeah, this one, a sink for me as well. I just I can’t believe that this documentary even exists. And it’s wild because I feel that there’s a reason that it exists. It can’t just be a normal puff piece.

And here’s the other part that really blows my mind and make this is the part that makes me the most angry is that for once I’m on the side of like all the critics when you go and you see it’s got like a 0% score and then the audience is like a 98% score. I literally am going into this. I’m like, all right, it’s going to be basically like hyping her up and people are going to be saying, oh, she doesn’t deserve all this credit. And then you watch it and it’s like they don’t even give her credit.

She doesn’t give herself credit. There’s there’s no part of this where you walk away thinking like, wow, I had her totally all wrong. I had her pegged as just some vapid idiot because I know all of the arguments that you hear where it’s like, well, she speaks, you know, seven languages. Yeah, maybe her English isn’t great, but do you speak seven languages? And personally, no, I guess I don’t. And I was like, maybe she is some like legit genius behind the scenes. And if she is, it’s not in filmmaking or in public appearances whatsoever.

So I, I went into this neutral and I came out like almost liking Melania a little bit less, not in like a hate or a political way, but just like, uh, and the fact that they spent 40 million and hired their friend to make this and that she had creative control over the entire thing. And I walked away neutral and then came back away with like, uh, maybe a little bit less than neutral. I don’t know how you could have done a worse job than this. I think what they should have done is they should have went to paranoidamerican.com and looked at Illuminati and then kind of put Melania in that light.

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