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Your help needed: amplify the 2018 paranormal erotic thriller novel "Melania: Devourer of Men" so it ranks higher than her movie.
It depicts the First Lady as a sexual monster and is rocketing up Amazon’s sales charts.
A Reddit-led campaign to disrupt the Amazon search results for “Melania” is behind the sudden spike in popularity of the eight year old book.
Your help needed: amplify the 2018 paranormal erotic thriller novel "Melania: Devourer of Men" so it ranks higher than her movie.
It depicts the First Lady as a sexual monster and is rocketing up Amazon’s sales charts.
A Reddit-led campaign to disrupt the Amazon search results for “Melania” is behind the sudden spike in popularity of the eight year old book.
The review in @GetCarter 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
In this Post-Stross Universe, where fiction is now the upper bound on how positive the future will be, we are watching the plot of #MelBrooks's 1967 movie _The Producers_ play out in real time.
The audience has yet to start laughing at #Amazon's cunning scheme to give a bung to #DonaldJTrump via a disastrous #Melania movie about the rise to power of a monarch and his consort.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115986124726085280
#MelaniaTrump #USMovies #SpringTimeForHitler #TheProducers #PostStrossUniverse #fascism
Charlie Stross
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Who on Earth were those three people in Islington? And are they alright afterwards?
https://mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/melania-trump-suffers-humiliating-blow-36629616
I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards.
And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622
The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day.
https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836
@JdeBP @cstross @GetCarter making someone watch that for their job should be an OSHA violation.
Who on Earth were those three people in Islington? And are they alright afterwards?
https://mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/melania-trump-suffers-humiliating-blow-36629616
I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards.
And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622
The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day.
https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836
Charlie Stross
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They're not far off, either.
I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer.
So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-:
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/
Amusing coincidence: Kimberly Bond also writes features for Cosmo.
@GetCarter
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #Amazon #TheMetro
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The review in @GetCarter 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
They're not far off, either.
I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer.
So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-:
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/
Amusing coincidence: Kimberly Bond also writes features for Cosmo.
@GetCarter
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #Amazon #TheMetro
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Charlie Stross
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The review in @GetCarter 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single 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"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest
The review in @GetCarter 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
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The review to end all reviews.
Who on Earth were those three people in Islington? And are they alright afterwards?
https://mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/melania-trump-suffers-humiliating-blow-36629616
ProTip: When a studio refuses to let reviewers see a film before its pubic release, you can be fairly sure it won't be winning any major Academy Awards. Yeah. #Melania
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