# Brett Ratner to direct Melania Trump documentary **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, documentary-bio, trump\ **Created:** [January 14, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957 "2025-01-14T10:43:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/21 "2025-01-14T18:35:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > With the budget available, maybe they can make it a 10-part Ken Burns type documentary. > > If Ratner wants to make a trilogy, Trump has two previous wives. Lots of good quotes in Ivana’s book. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/22 "2025-01-15T12:10:36Z")
There’s really no need to embellish anything, her days as a freedom fighter with the Slovokian Resistance alone could fill a movie. The combination of using her feminine wiles and blowing up railroad tracks (she’s an explosives expert) will charm the critics. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/23 "2025-01-15T14:33:49Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I did read Melanias book That’s probably more than she did. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/24 "2025-01-19T00:09:43Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There’s really no need to embellish anything, her days as a freedom fighter with the Slovokian Resistance alone could fill a movie. The combination of using her feminine wiles and blowing up railroad tracks (she’s an explosives expert) will charm the critics. It’s almost a shame the war had ended forty years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/25 "2026-01-31T03:17:21Z")
Maybe this isn’t the place for this story, but I’m sure we’re all aware that the box office results have been dismal, to say the least. Also, enough people have thought this was a real story that Double Bay Today, an Australian parody site a la the Onion, had to debunk it. > **[ICE agents now detaining random Minnesota residents to make them watch the...](https://doublebaytoday.com/ice-agents-now-detaining-random-minnesota-residents-to-make-them-watch-the-new-melania-documentary/)** > > SCREENING PROCESS: Federal immigration authorities have confirmed a new “temporary holding and cultural awareness initiative” that requires randomly selected Minnesota residents to watch the new Melania Trump documentary. “If they have U.S... ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/26 "2026-01-31T11:16:26Z")
I’ve said it other places and I’ll repeat it here: the facts of Melania’s story could be interesting, and the first trailer is slick. But obviously it a hollow, gilded vanity project that tells you nothing about her. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/27 "2026-01-31T15:17:24Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Please let this be the ratings bomb that it so richly deserves to be. I called the theater, asking them when the next showing was. They said, “How soon can you get here?” ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/28 "2026-01-31T15:19:46Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > But obviously it a hollow, gilded vanity project that tells you nothing about her. I don’t think _both_ parts of that sentence are true. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957/29 "2026-02-01T21:33:52Z")
The 80th or so person to be uniquely connected to the current President and Jeffrey Epstein: > **[Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mk3v2k3r0o)** > > The images of Ratner with Epstein and unidentified women were released the same day as his documentary about the US first lady. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brett-ratner-to-direct-melania-trump-documentary/1012957.md?page=1)