• The White Home hosted an advance screening of Amazon MGM Studios' new documentary on Melania Trump on Saturday.
• The unique Melania screening was attended by the likes of Mike Tyson, Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner, Queen Rania of Jordan, and Brett Ratner, the movie's director.
• The occasion held amid unprecedented civil unrest over violent immigration raids in Minnesota sparked widespread criticism, together with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The White Home hosted an advance screening of Amazon MGM Studios' new documentary on Melania Trump on Saturday that included a number of high-profile attendees.

MELANIA, which chronicles the life and instances of the spouse of Donald Trump within the 20 days earlier than his current re-election to the presidency, can have its official premiere on the Kennedy Middle on Thursday, following the president's hostile takeover of the venerable cultural establishment. However a choose few had been handled to an early take a look at the documentary directed by Brett Ratner, in his first movie since being accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls in 2017.

Ratner attended the White Home screening alongside Mike Tyson, who has shared a pleasant relationship with Donald Trump since his 2024 re-election, in addition to Trump himself; Queen Rania of Jordan; Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner; photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who shot the movie's poster; self-help mogul Tony Robbins; Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk; and Amazon execs Mike Hopkins and Andy Jassy, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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Melania mentioned she was "deeply humbled" by the screening in a Sunday put up shared to X, the social media platform that Trump affiliate Elon Musk purchased in 2022.

She praised the "mates, household, and cultural iconoclasts" who attended the occasion for bringing their "distinctive imaginative and prescient to the world, making a long-lasting impression." She continued, "Our private tales endure time and function a reminder of our mutual obligation to 1 one other. It was an honor to current my new movie, Melania, forward of its international launch."

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Leisure Weekly has reached out to representatives for The White Home and Amazon for remark.

Although the screening was deliberate months prior, the Trump administration and Melania particularly have confronted intense criticism for holding the occasion amid staggering unrest following the murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti throughout violent immigration raids by legislation enforcement brokers in Minnesota.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted the president on X on Saturday, writing, "Right this moment DHS assassinated a VA nurse on the street, [Attorney General Pam Bondi] is making an attempt to extort voter recordsdata, and half the nation is bracing on the eve of a doubtlessly crippling ice storm with FEMA gutted. So what’s the President as much as? Having a film evening on the White Home. He's unfit."

CNN reported on Saturday that Amazon minimize a $40 million examine to provide Melania, and spent a further $35 million advertising the movie.

The trailer for the movie to be launched in theaters on Jan. 30 reveals Melania placing collectively outfits, calling a crimson leather-based doc holder "stunning," and predicting that her husband will probably be remembered as a "peacemaker and unifier."

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