Why did the notoriously private First Lady film a Brett Ratner–directed documentary? It might have something to do with the $28 million paycheck.

Documentary director Brett Ratner chases the aloof first lady from SUVs to private planes in a profile loaded with B-roll but lacking an A-story.

The MAGA sphere took offense to a White House reporter asking why the first lady promoted her documentary during a meeting with freed Israeli-American hostages. Melania Trump, 55, was questioned by CNN’s Betsy Klein on Wednesday about why she promoted her film Melania while meeting with freed hostages Keith Siegel and his wife,

The president and the first lady registered similar favorable ratings in separate Economist/YouGov polls.

If you don't know much about Melania Trump heading into "Melania," the high-gloss, low-substance vanity project/documentary about America's first lady currently playing in theaters, you won't know much more about her coming out of it.

Case in point: the film’s posters, with blocky black letters spelling “Melania” against a white background and the first lady herself, captured by the fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth, either seated in a geometric chair on one side in a black pantsuit, a white shirt and black stilettos or face on in a black turtleneck, hair cascading.

The pricey Amazon documentary did well in areas like Dallas, Tampa, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta and West Palm Beach. Amazon says a docuseries is also on the way.

A reporter also asked the first lady if it was appropriate to promote her new self-titled documentary during a White House event with freed American-Israeli hostages