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Miles Archer

(23,320 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:28 AM Jan 28

Michael Wolff claims First Nude Melania went ballistic over the murder of Alex Pretti "upstaging her movie premiere"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fuming-melania-puts-trump-aides-at-risk-of-ouster-michael-wolff/

Furious that Donald Trump’s Minneapolis fiasco was upstaging her film, Melania Trump forced her husband to overhaul his deportation campaign, author Michael Wolff claims.

“This was supposed to be the Melania week,” Wolff told his co-host Joanna Coles on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast.

But on Saturday, as the 55-year-old first lady prepared to host a screening of her documentary, Melania, federal immigration agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti.

According to Wolff, a “truly p---ed-off” Melania bristled as outrage over Trump’s deportation operation swallowed the spotlight meant for her $75 million film ahead of its premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday.
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Michael Wolff claims First Nude Melania went ballistic over the murder of Alex Pretti "upstaging her movie premiere" (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 28 OP
Oh, something she really does care about--herself. tanyev Jan 28 #1
Even if nothing else were happening anywhere in the world, nobody would want to see it. Ocelot II Jan 28 #2
There is serious money behind this film. Its going to be playing Klarkashton Jan 28 #3
Is this satire? If not, she is delusional as fuck ecstatic Jan 28 #4
You forgot to mention the "Einstein" visa she suddenly acquired before niyad Jan 28 #36
Why wasn't she served there, Mike? OAITW r.2.0 Jan 28 #5
...wouldn't it be wonderful if someone served her at the Kennedy Center event? ... fierywoman Jan 28 #13
What in the name of Hell did the United States do to be cursed with her presence? RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 28 #6
Apparently Tim Cook went in spite of the shooting vapor2 Jan 28 #7
Awwww, her fee fees were hurt? IzzaNuDay Jan 28 #8
"I really don't care, do you?" JudyM Jan 28 #9
Buried and nearly forgotten behind all of the killings, crises, Trumpian gaffs, Safe as Milk Jan 28 #10
🎯 THIS!!!👆👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Jan 28 #29
+1 dalton99a Jan 28 #41
The Red Sparrow is angry Prairie Gates Jan 28 #11
Who actually thinks she has done enough of anything interesting to deserve this? ms liberty Jan 28 #12
I think it was promised to her so she would pretend to stick around for Trump.2 Skittles Jan 28 #24
Ohhh dear, not that I do not necessarily believe it, but niyad Jan 28 #14
He's also goading her about discovery on an Epstein defamation suit. Hugin Jan 28 #21
Sorry Melania - my beautiful mind has bigger things to think about than your 'documentary'.nt Blasphemer Jan 28 #15
Tim Apple showed up. What more did the First Nude want? RockRaven Jan 28 #16
Talk to your Fucking ICE Nazis.. Nazi Cha Jan 28 #17
"Michael Wolff claims..." speculation. flvegan Jan 28 #18
It'sa horrible article Rafielyo Jan 28 #30
And that's why I worded it that way in my subject line Miles Archer Jan 28 #31
A lot of remote psychoanalysis and "it just sounds like she would've done it" Rafielyo Jan 28 #33
OK, so put me on "ignore" and don't click on my posts Miles Archer Jan 28 #35
I can't say I completely disagree with you-- Lulu KC Jan 28 #39
"People want to know, so here it is." was such an exiting tagline eShirl Jan 28 #19
55 year old? Hugin Jan 28 #20
I have been made to understand through confidential sources PCIntern Jan 28 #22
She's about to have her Evita moment. Hugin Jan 28 #23
Keeping her priorities in line. no_hypocrisy Jan 28 #25
"This was supposed to be the Melania week" HAB911 Jan 28 #26
;-{)........ Goonch Jan 28 #27
Does this surprise anyone? GoCubsGo Jan 28 #28
It's BREATHTAKING how perfect those two are for each other. Maru Kitteh Jan 28 #32
Will she accept her Razzie in person? Johonny Jan 28 #34
Paint drying would upstage that POS Jbraybarten Jan 28 #37
It's all about me , just like her convict husband Tribetime Jan 28 #38
I can believe it MustLoveBeagles Jan 28 #40
A true narcissist. The cold blooded murder of a good man by her husband inconveniences her. Irish_Dem Jan 28 #42

Ocelot II

(130,565 posts)
2. Even if nothing else were happening anywhere in the world, nobody would want to see it.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:38 AM
Jan 28

Malaria might be one of the most boring people ever to have walked the earth. There is nothing exciting, praiseworthy or admirable about her. She's a void, an empty space for implants and haute couture. Since she doesn't actually do anything she's not even evil enough to be interesting.

Klarkashton

(5,300 posts)
3. There is serious money behind this film. Its going to be playing
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:40 AM
Jan 28

At almost every theater around here. It's a world class foist.

ecstatic

(35,075 posts)
4. Is this satire? If not, she is delusional as fuck
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:43 AM
Jan 28

if she thinks anyone gives a shit about her "pay for play" funded movie. You couldn't pay me to watch that shit! In fact, I should be boycotting Amazon.

The irony is rich as well.

Here she is... a freaking IMMIGRANT (who I'm told came here illegally before snagging a criminal almost twice her age)... SILENT in the face of this bullshit that's being unleashed across this country. People are literally being detained just for having brown skin and /or an accent and she thinks we want to watch her movie?

FUCK OFF! Go back to Slovenia or wherever the fuck you came from! Take your disgusting husband with you!

niyad

(132,492 posts)
36. You forgot to mention the "Einstein" visa she suddenly acquired before
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:22 AM
Jan 28

she was to be deported. No explanation has ever been given as to the "significant achievements" that supposedly warranted it. You also forgot to mention the "chain migration" (her parents), and her "anchor baby", barron.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,042 posts)
6. What in the name of Hell did the United States do to be cursed with her presence?
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:44 AM
Jan 28

Oh right—she's with stupid!

IzzaNuDay

(1,296 posts)
8. Awwww, her fee fees were hurt?
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:53 AM
Jan 28
TOO EFFING BAD!!!

Maybe she should instead reach out to the families of those who were needlessly slain by CPB/ICE since New Year’s Eve…

Safe as Milk

(254 posts)
10. Buried and nearly forgotten behind all of the killings, crises, Trumpian gaffs,
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:00 AM
Jan 28

and everything else, we can still ask the question:

What was Melania's role with Epstein and Maxwell? What did she do with them at the height of their criminality and perversions? And why does that seem to be a universally forbidden question?

ms liberty

(11,240 posts)
12. Who actually thinks she has done enough of anything interesting to deserve this?
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:18 AM
Jan 28

And being the third trophy wife of whatever that Orange Monster is is NOT a legitimate answer.

I am so sick of the cult of stupidity and talentlessness.

Skittles

(171,724 posts)
24. I think it was promised to her so she would pretend to stick around for Trump.2
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:55 AM
Jan 28

yup

I mean, seriously, who the fuck would think there was a big audience for that boring gold digger?

niyad

(132,492 posts)
14. Ohhh dear, not that I do not necessarily believe it, but
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:45 AM
Jan 28

this is michael wolff, who correspnded with epstein.

Hugin

(37,849 posts)
21. He's also goading her about discovery on an Epstein defamation suit.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:12 AM
Jan 28

She knows much more about Epstein and Trump than almost anyone else who’s still alive. Why’s she getting a pass?

flvegan

(66,286 posts)
18. "Michael Wolff claims..." speculation.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 03:58 AM
Jan 28

I'm sure it helps his podcast, though.

She got her money, she probably doesn't care. And frankly, the types of people that would surround Melania with attention and laud her with praise about her movie, could give zero fucks about anything happening in MN and probably think Pretti was a domestic terrorist. They're all trash.

But again, that would be speculation on my part too. Except the trash part.

 

Rafielyo

(8 posts)
30. It'sa horrible article
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 08:34 AM
Jan 28

The article won’t even claim that Wolff says that he heard it from someone, which would be gossippy enough.

Miles Archer

(23,320 posts)
31. And that's why I worded it that way in my subject line
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:43 AM
Jan 28

I know Wolff is neither fully credible or popular on DU. So I made it clear that the "theory" came from him, that it was speculation on his part. but...

...the premise is SO IN KEEPING with WHO and WHAT she is that is seemed 100% reasonable to me. If it were some kind of tin foil hat conspiracy theory I wouldn't have posted it.

WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT HER, strictly based on her words and actions?

1). She's moody / bipolar (all of those videos of her with Trump and Ivanka, big wide smile, and the second they turn their back on her it goes to a "WHO FARTED" grimace

2). She's entitled, high on her own supply. When the MAGAts call her "our Jackie Kennedy," I'm sure she believes them

3). She got a foul mouth. "Are you fucking kidding me? KIDS? CHRISTMAS?"

4). She hates kids and Christmas (see above) and sells $150 Christmas ornaments on her website after ranting about fuck Christmas

5). She's the poster child for passive-aggressive behavior...the "I don't care do U" jacket she wore to go inspect kids in cages in Texas

So I get the fact that Wolff is Wolff, and if he got to the point where DU completely rejected the practice of posting his words here, I'd honor that.

I don't think what he said meets the criteria for "that's just his opinion."

It sounds too much like the actual behavior of the Slovenian sex industry worker.

 

Rafielyo

(8 posts)
33. A lot of remote psychoanalysis and "it just sounds like she would've done it"
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:53 AM
Jan 28

If we were to impute words to people based on the fact that it just feels like they could’ve said something like that, I would have a news outlet claiming that people said this or that, just because it sounds like them.

This is gossip.

Miles Archer

(23,320 posts)
35. OK, so put me on "ignore" and don't click on my posts
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:57 AM
Jan 28

I've done all of the "explaining" I intend to do, and if the result is that I get attacked for it, all I can say is "HAVE A NICE DAY."

Just do us both a favor, and when you see my posts, keep scrolling.

Lulu KC

(8,893 posts)
39. I can't say I completely disagree with you--
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 05:01 PM
Jan 28

but based on what we do know about her, it sounds like something with a greater than 50% chance of being true.

More noticeable, however, is that with all that's going on in the world today, defending Melania Trump is your choice of important matters? Hmmmm.

PCIntern

(28,384 posts)
22. I have been made to understand through confidential sources
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:20 AM
Jan 28

that ICE will be arriving at selected neighborhoods and forcing people into buses to attend the film. Resistance will be met with force of extreme prejudice.

just in case…

no_hypocrisy

(54,919 posts)
25. Keeping her priorities in line.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 08:19 AM
Jan 28

While this claim can't be proved without recording of Wolff saying this or Wolff going around the media repeating it, I find it credible.

Melania's former BFF, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff wrote a book about her relationship and her times with Melania Trump. https://www.amazon.com/Melania-Me-Rise-Friendship-First/dp/1982151242

In this book, she details how dismissive Melania was about certain events, certain people, certain anything.

When Melania wore that coat that said "I don't care, do you?", it might as well been a tattoo on her arm. It's who she is.

Maru Kitteh

(31,772 posts)
32. It's BREATHTAKING how perfect those two are for each other.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:51 AM
Jan 28

Truly a star-crossed match. The stars are actually biomass debris ejected from a sewage pipe that ignited swamp gas but hey - that’s not too weird, right?

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