Comedian Chelsea Handler gave first lady Melania Trump’s documentary a brutal review, backhandedly suggesting she star in a very different kind of film about her life.
“It was entertaining for about 10 or 15 minutes, and then we moved on to something else. The documentary that I would be interested in seeing about Melania would be how she became a United States citizen with the Einstein visa,” Handler said on journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast Friday.
The “Einstein visa” is a nickname for an employment-based green card given to those with extraordinary ability in science, the arts or athletics. Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, immigrated to the U.S. from Slovenia after receiving such a visa in 2001 while working as a fashion model.
“Maybe it’s the Epstein visa. They spelled it wrong,” Handler joked, referencing the president’s past friendship with convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein and rumors of the first lady’s ties to him, which she has denied.
Handler suggested that in her hypothetical documentary, Melania Trump could be the person who “unearths” the Epstein files.
“Finally, we get all of the Epstein files that all the Republican Party, that everybody’s been demanding,” she told Swisher. “Let’s see them. Let’s see, you know, the person who’s listed more than anybody else. Let’s have her hand-deliver them to us on a platter. That would be a nice beginning or end to a documentary.”
Watch Handler and Swisher’s conversation below:
Handler’s remarks follow reports that the first lady will star in a multi-episode documentary series on Amazon Prime next fall, despite her previous documentary getting abysmal reviews.
“Melania Trump’s first documentary bombed, and she’s going to get in front of the camera anyway,” Swisher noted.
The series will reportedly give viewers a more behind-the-scenes look at the early days of the second Trump administration.
Handler walked Swisher through the beginning of the “Melania” documentary, noting that she took a marijuana edible before streaming the film.
“It was just her walking around,” Handler said. “There’s a lot of voiceover because her talking directly to the camera, I think, is problematic.”
“She changes outfits in a dining room, about seven to eight times within the first 20 minutes, and it’s really about her planning the White House inaugural ball,” Handler recounted. “Which … your takeaway from that is that she had absolutely nothing to do with it after she’s demonstrated how much she had to do with it.”
Calling the film “pretty ridiculous,” Handler added one more thing she found absurd.
“The idea that she’s getting another opportunity to do something — it’s like, I’ve never seen someone who doesn’t speak up for anything or stand for anything keep getting a platform to say absolutely nothing.”