Katie Couric Mocks Melania Trump With Savage ‘Riveting’ Comment

In a zero-star review, The Guardian‘s Xan Brooks noted Melania was a “gilded trash remake” of Jonathan Glazer‘s The Zone of Interest with “no redeeming quality.”

“I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne,” he wrote.

In a scathing analysis shared by The New Yorker, journalist Lauren Collins compared Melania to “an OnlyFans account crossed with that meme of Kim Jong Un visiting factories.”

She then claimed the film was only successful in showing Donald Trump‘s wife the way she wanted to appear.

“We can only conclude that Melania portrays Melania in exactly the way she wants to be seen: as rigid, formal, solitary, dourly materialistic; surrounded by lackeys drafted into the closest thing to intimacy that she seems able to access; grinding through bot-like voice-overs filled with awkward gerunds and stilted exposition,” Collins penned.

Melania earned $7 million and finished third at the box office during its opening weekend. The documentary also brought in another $7 million in its second weekend, tallying up $14 million globally despite a $40 million budget from Amazon MGM Studios.

The president, 79, spoke about his wife’s flick on March 9 at a retreat for House Republicans in Florida, calling her a “movie star.”

“She’s got the biggest… Can you believe this? That movie was hot and it is hot. She became a movie star,” he gushed. “It was a good movie.”

The FLOTUS and the POTUS had a date night on January 29 at the Kennedy Center for the premiere of her documentary. The movie was directed by Brett Ratner and gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look of the three weeks before her husband’s second inauguration.