sales and eyeballs two very different things.

and when six or seven show up, that's "better than expected"?

Would there even have been that many if not for paying morons to go?

(satire)


Don't forget the upcoming Trump Memorial Library. CAN'T WAIT.

"Well, it's a flop by those budget standards, but great revenue for a documentary" -- DOCUMENTARIES NEVER COST THIS MUCH, so measure it by the budget not the film category.

To give a sense of the aberrant scale of cost difference we're talking about:
James Cameron's documentary about the Titanic, Ghosts of the Abyss, using cutting-edge custom-built submersibles/ROVs to film the actual wreckage at the bottom of the ocean... Budget $13M.
March of the Penguins, a film shot in Antarctica which means hostile conditions and hellacious logistics... Budget $8M.
Free Solo, an Oscar winning documentary in the late 2010s about free climber Alex Honnold doing the first ever free solo climb of El Capitan in Yosemite... Budget $2M.



But, yeah, $7M, this country has a hell of a lot of fart-sniffing worms in it.

Did he get them to stuff the ticket boxes?

Did they buy up seats. Give out free tickets to the homeless to fill the seats?

I find it hard to believe anything they tell us now.

Watch what happens next weekend, after movie critics are no longer buying tickets.

And unlike regular documentaries, which are made on a tiny budget with no marketing, this had the production costs of a major feature film, the most for any documentary in history, including $40 Million in licensing fees (bribes) paid to the Trumps and $35 Million on marketing alone. This movie would have to make well over $75 Million at the box office just to break even. https://www.military.com/feature/2026/01/29/why-40-million-melania-trump-documentary-raising-eyebrows.html#:~:text=First%20Lady%20Documentary%20Has%20Blockbuster,feature%2Dlength%20documentaries%20ever%20command.

and she’ll catch up with Fahrenheit 9/11.

... came-about the same way some book-authors tried to buy their way onto the NY Times bestsellers list -- by buying their own books.

Authors who themselves bought scads of their own books (to boost their bestseller ratings, some allege) include Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney.

Oh, and looky there -- the author of The Art of the Deal had his organization buy "tens of thousands of copies themselves." I'm shocked. Shocked!
(https://bookriot.com/books-that-bought-their-way-to-the-new-york-times-bestsellers-list/)

Once that’s gone it’ll be all crickets.

So they collect bribes in the form of ticket sales and then will strong arm the Academy for a best documentary
by threatening fake fraud investigations. If that fails, an Epstein Billionaire will invent an AmBest Fillm award to present to the First ****. The ceremony will be held on top of the ruins of the ****Kennedy Center.

$7 million in sales translates into something akin to 700,000 tickets (assuming $10/ticket, which may be low). With 77 million votes cast for Trump, that means fewer than 1 percent of his voters bothered to check out the movie. And it's likely that this past weekend was the high water mark for ticket sales.

I believe Melania so-far has a 1.2 ..so she's going places !!

"In closure, Judges throughout this land should start sending Hard-Core Felons (Bank Robbers and such)
should be sentenced to watch Melania 10 times." The poor bastards would turn around their entire lives, in order not to be punished anymore..."

Geez.

Boebert couldn't even get a date to go with her.

sure big money trumpy supporters bought up the tickets

They are unlikely to get their money back.