Melania Trump’s follow-up to her panned documentary now has a trailer, a premiere date and a crowd of social media users vowing not to watch.
Prime Video released the trailer for “Melania, The Series” on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, and the first lady shared it on social media ahead of the two-part docuseries’ Nov. 20 debut on Amazon’s streaming service. The series follows “Melania,” the feature documentary released in January, and draws on footage director Brett Ratner filmed but left out of the movie, including the first days after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
Would Not Watch If Someone Paid Me
Critics on X were unmoved.
“Would not watch if someone paid me,” posted one user, The Tomten (@thetomten1), on Nov. 9. “What makes you think people want to see this?” wrote another, Sumner (@renmusb1), who said viewers are tired of programs like it.
Others urged a boycott of Amazon and Prime Video ahead of the Nov. 20 premiere. One predicted no one would be watching, pointing to the 2026 midterm elections, in which Republicans lost the House and the Senate to Democrats. Another asked whether the trailer was a joke.
She Calls the Gossip Noise
Melania Trump describes herself in the trailer as a mother, a wife and the first lady, and calls her 20-year-old son, Barron Trump, her priority. “The media, they want gossip. For me, it’s noise,” she says in the trailer. A voice-over promises viewers moments they have never seen.
Prime Video says the series delivers never-before-told stories and unprecedented insight into her life, including the extraordinary days immediately after the 47th presidential inauguration. Amazon’s description of the first episode, “Family & Trust,” has the incoming first lady setting priorities and shielding the people closest to her inside the White House, where her trust is tested by the demands of power. The second, “Pride & Honor,” covers the mission she set in motion for the American people in the moments after the inauguration.
Ratner directs and produces, with Fernando Sulichin also producing. Melania Trump and Marc Beckman are executive producers. Amazon MGM Studios, Muse Films, New Element Media and RatPac Entertainment made the series, which Prime Video will stream in more than 240 countries and territories.
Bezos Denied Buying Influence
The first film tracked the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration and reached theaters in January 2026. Amazon MGM Studios reportedly spent $75 million acquiring and marketing it, including a reported $40 million licensing deal with Melania Trump, who was an executive producer on the film, and roughly $35 million on the theatrical marketing campaign. That deal also covered a follow-up docuseries, the two episodes now headed to Prime Video.
The film grossed about $16.6 million worldwide.
The size of the outlay brought accusations that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was trying to curry favor with the Trump administration. Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said they would investigate whether the movie’s release was a “pay-to-play scheme,” arguing that the administration holds sway over several of Amazon’s financial interests. Bezos, the company’s executive chair, attended the inauguration and has had a warmer relationship with the president during his second term.
After the film’s release, Bezos insisted he played no part in Amazon’s decision to buy it and dismissed claims that the deal was meant to win favor with the president. The administration, for its part, has repeatedly held the documentary up as a success despite its box-office showing.
The new series lands about 10 months after that movie. Melania Trump revealed on Sept. 23, during an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” that a two-part project was in the works, describing it as a one-on-one conversation in which she answers private questions she had never addressed publicly.
On Nov. 5, she hosted Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House to mark a six-day truce she helped broker in Oleshky, a Ukrainian city under Russian occupation.