Jimmy Kimmel has some doubts over the reported $7 million the Melania Trump documentary made at the box office in its opening weekend.
“Speaking of rigged outcomes,” the late-night host said on Wednesday’s (February 4) edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “The Melania documentary allegedly exceeded box office expectations. They had the best opening for a non-musical documentary in ten years, which I think is a fancy way of saying it only lost tens of millions of dollars.”
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