The film will present Melania as she wishes to be seen: beautiful, elegant, poised, with the best tweakments money can buy. “I feel I was always me the first time as well,” Melania told Fox News in an interview this week, but she is now more confident. “The difference is I know where I’ll be going. I know the rooms where we’ll be living.” She added, “I just feel that people didn’t accept me, they didn’t understand me maybe, they way they do now…. I’m standing on my own two feet.”
This has been ridiculed as a kowtow to Donald Trump, but it’s not so different to the $100m (£82m) paid by Netflix to Prince Harry and Meghan or the alleged $65m (£53m) publishing deal for the Obamas’ memoirs. The fact is, Melania is catnip viewing for millions of Americans, who admire her glamour and fortitude.
The girl from communist Slovenia used to wear her designer mother’s creations on the catwalk before moving to Italy and the US as a young fashion model. After meeting the twice-married Trump at the KitKat club in New York, she never looked back. “Donald and I share an appreciation of the finer things in life,” she writes in her memoir.
“I don’t always agree [with] what my husband is doing or saying and that’s ok,” she said. “I give him my advice and sometimes he listens, sometimes he doesn’t.”
“When I need to be in New York, I will be in New York. When I need to be in Palm Beach, I will be in Palm Beach,” she said. “But my first priority is to be a mum, to be a first lady, to be a wife. And once we are in on January 20, you serve the country.”
But Melania has a gift for overlooking such trifles. The director of her Amazon documentary is Brett Ratner, the maker of X-Men: the Last Stand and the Rush Hour films, who was shunned by Hollywood at the height of the Me Too movement after several women alleged sexual misconduct (he denies the allegations and no charges were brought).
In 2005 Melania featured on the cover of Vogue as “Donald Trump’s new bride” in a Christian Dior wedding dress, but was snubbed as first lady during the first Trump presidency. That stung, especially as Jill Biden, 73, was photographed twice – most recently, with horrible timing, just as her husband was being forced out of the 2024 race.
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Read MoreMelania is also likely to be invited back to the Met Gala, New York’s fashion event of the year (Barron, too, now he’s old enough). Trump proposed to her there in 2004, but was banned by Wintour from attending when he became president. If Wintour continues to resist the Trump family charm, her own days as Queen of Conde Nast may be numbered.
That’s rich, given that both Trumps refused to attend Biden’s inauguration and Melania recently turned down Jill Biden’s traditional first lady invitation to tea. But like the message on the jacket she wore in 2018 to visit immigrant children on the US border, Melania’s usual riposte to criticism is, “I really don’t care, do U?”.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Centre
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