{"id":17972,"date":"2026-07-27T04:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/?p=17972"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:08:32","slug":"melania-trump-slammed-for-insensitive-update-during-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/?p=17972","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump slammed for insensitive update during Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The documentary landed on Prime Video on 9<br \/>\nMarch after Jeff Bezos&#8217; Amazon MGM studios<br \/>\npaid $40 million for the film<\/h2>\n<p>Melania Trump has sparked a heated discussion online after sharing a life update during the conflict in<br \/>\nIran.<\/p>\n<p>On 10 March, the United States First Lady took to her official X account to share with her 3.9 million<br \/>\nfollowers that her recently-released documentary was the number one movie on Prime Video globally.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the docu-film, which hit cinemas earlier this year (30 January), follows Melania in the 20 days leading<br \/>\nup to her husband, US President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2025 inauguration last January.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary&#8217;offers unprecedented access to the 20 days leading up to the 2025 Presidential<br \/>\nInauguration through the eyes of the First Lady herself&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Its description states that it invites audiences to step inside Melania&#8217;s world as &#8216;she orchestrates<br \/>\ninauguration plans, navigates the complexities of the White House transition, and moves her family back<br \/>\nto the nation&#8217;s capital&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The film features exclusive footage capturing critical meetings, private conversations, and never-before-<br \/>\nseen environments.<\/p>\n<p>It landed on Prime on 9 March after Jeff Bezos&#8217; Amazon MGM studios paid $40 million for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Melania announced the news about her film doing the numbers on the streaming giant with a text post<br \/>\nthat stated &#8216;#1 MOVIE PRIME WORLDWIDE&#8217; with an image of the Melania Prime doc underneath reading<br \/>\n&#8216;Top 10 in the US&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>While many MAGA heads rushed in to praise Melania for the achievement, a number of critics took issue<br \/>\nwith the post, with several considering it insensitive, per the Mirror, amid the intensifying conflict in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17973\" src=\"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ssss-134x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran late last month (28 February), which set off retaliatory<br \/>\nstrikes across the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total vanity project. What a joke,&#8221; slammed one X user while another hit out: &#8220;Seriously? This is what you<br \/>\npost? Something about yourself? With everything happening now and the chaos caused by your dearly<br \/>\nbeloved?\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Melania has got an 11 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes&#8217; Tomatometer but has interestingly received a<br \/>\nnear-perfect 98 percent on its Popcornmeter, a stark divide between the two rating systems.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the Tomatometer represents the percentage of positive reviews from professional critics,<br \/>\nwhile the Popcornmeter shows the percentage of positive ratings from audience members, primarily<br \/>\nverified users.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, over on IMDb, Melania has received a 1.4\/10.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the First Lady&#8217;s documentary film is &#8216;#7 in the UK&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary landed on Prime Video on 9 March after Jeff Bezos&#8217; Amazon MGM studios paid $40 million for the film Melania Trump has sparked a heated discussion online after &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17974,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions\/17974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingmydairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}