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Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record-breaking audience scores
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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For obvious propaganda pieces like this, that's how "Verified Audience" reviews will always be. In order to be counted you need to have purchased a ticket through one of RT's partners, so it's self-selecting. No sane person is going to buy a ticket to this bribe masquerading as a documentary, so it's only insane Republicans being counted towards that score.
You can select "All Audience" if you want to see everyone. It's at 29%, even after Republicans' review boosting campaign.
Given everything we've learned in the last few years, the chances are extremely high that at least half those purchased tickets don't correspond with a living person actually sitting in a cinema seat.
Yup. Giving it a positive review is basically saying "I support Trump" since nothing involving him could ever be bad in any way to them, and of course 99% of the people who actually paid to see it will be Trump supporters.