This started out with Donald Trump being asked if he and Melania did anything for Valentine’s Day and that’s where the lying began. You can see it in in the blankness of his expression that he didn’t even know that Valentine’s Day had come and gone. Then he started lauding the “movie star” with the “big hit” and it all unravelled from there.
Reporter: Did you do anything with Melania on Valentine’s Day? Did you give her flowers?
Trump: Better not tell you that. Bye everybody. That’s the toughest question.
pic.twitter.com/4nQ2CklQz6— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 17, 2026
That’s the toughest question because he wasn’t expecting it and didn’t have a glib lie put together. As for “what she’s doing with Russia and Ukraine” people are still dying everyday. Plus, Melania ranks dead last amongst First Ladies just as Trump ranks dead last amongst presidents, in polls taken by historians.
But it’s very important that Trump dress up the bribe that Jeff Bezos gave him and make it look like it’s something else, something of substance. So far Melania is still out in theaters and it is not going to come anywhere near to breaking even, so whatever Melania’s “gifts” Return On Investment in the cinema is not one of them.
Amazon doesn’t have a date certain when Melania will be available to Prime members. I’ll definitely do a review of it when I don’t have to shell out a nickel to see it (oh, and thirteen bucks for a personalized popcorn tub, did you catch that one as well?) Amazon says “sometime this year,” which could be next month or next Christmas — another reason to “nawt geeeve a fock” about Creesmusss.
I have heard that the movie Melania is subtitled, which is intriguing since she’s lived in this country for thirty years now. One would think that she would be fluent in English by now, but maybe she’s just so busy with those six other languages. That must be it.
Her movie has now lost $ 80 million, and counting.
So it’s entirely ‘on brand’ for a Trump family venture.
Oh FFS neither of them ‘couldn’t lie straight in bed’! Period!
‘Couldn’t lie straight in bed’ is an Australian idiom, a figurative expression. It is used to describe a person who is extremely dishonest and/or unscrupulous. It implies a person is so deceitful that even laying in bed their moral fibre is so crooked they just can’t lie straight.
“I have heard that the movie Melania is subtitled, which is intriguing since she’s lived in this country for thirty years now.”
Well, many documentaries produced by English-language production companies have frequently included subtitles, even for *native* English speakers.
They usually do this for speakers of DIALECTS that differ wildly from either American General English or Britain’s Received Pronunciation. I’ve seen it used when, usually, British documentary crews are dealing with people living in places like Cornwall or the Scottish Highlands or even among immigrant communities (West Indian or South Asian or African) where the “homeland” variety of English can be closer to a creole or patois form. But, most of these cases, you’re dealing in the first situation with people who may be living in relatively remote areas and who’ve not done much travel while the second situation is largely relegated to older immigrants who may be as likely to fall back to *their* English when it’s easier (while their children and grandchildren may speak in more standard RP).
Even when you have non-native speakers of English conversing in English (such as Arabic speakers or French speakers or Swedish speakers who do have some level of proficiency in English), their accents can render some of their English a bit unintelligible. Then again, this group of people are unlikely to be living in an English-speaking country.
Melania likely has not had the same breadth of friendships or non-family relationships which would have allowed her to better develop her English pronunciation. It’s been pretty well documented that Melania got entangled with Drumpf pretty soon after she came to this country and that the Drumpfs were not exactly welcomed among NYC society (tolerated would probably be the better term; this would typically keep Melania out of the “inner circle” of the matrons of NYC society, being invited almost exclusively to help grease their husbands’ own dealings with Drumpf but probably no more than the absolute minimum of society functions).
But you do gotta wonder if the film *is* subtitled for US release, how do you think the MAGAts feel about having to READ what she’s saying?
As long as movie-goers can read…
A hundred years ago Melania would have been one of those famous actors who couldn’t make the transition from silent/captioned films to ‘talkies.’