Who is the real Melania Trump?
Americano
The Spectator
4.0 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Freddy Gray speaks to the documentary maker Fernando Sulchin – who was behind the making of Melania Trump soon to be released on Amazon Prime – to discuss the First Lady, how the ten days leading up to the inauguration unravelled, her relationship with Donald Trump and whether she was sidelined by the fashion industry.
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| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome back to the Americana Show. My name is Freddie Gray. I am the deputy editor of the |
| 0:41.3 | spectator and the US editor. And I'm pleased to tell you that this is the 10th year of the |
| 0:47.7 | Americano podcast. And I think it's fair to say it's been a fairly fascinating time in American politics, life and culture. |
| 0:57.5 | And that's what we talk about every episode on this podcast. So please keep listening and provide |
| 1:03.8 | as much feedback as you like. I'm delighted to be joined today by Fernando Sulicin, who is a documentary maker and the documentary |
| 1:13.9 | maker behind Melania, a film that has made a lot of noise this week. It's a documentary |
| 1:20.6 | that follows the first lady in the run-up to the second inauguration of Donald Trump at the beginning of 2025. There's a lot of politics |
| 1:31.2 | going on in Trump world, but this story has bubbled alongside it this week. So I'm very much |
| 1:37.1 | looking forward to talking to you, Fernando, about it. I thought I'd start by saying, can you give |
| 1:42.7 | me the genesis of this project? |
| 1:44.9 | How did it begin? Why did it begin? |
| 1:47.6 | How quickly did it come together and so on? |
| 1:50.8 | Well, it began by the idea of the First Lady and her partner, Mark Beckham, |
| 1:56.5 | which is also a producing partner. |
| 1:58.2 | Both of them are a producer partner in this. |
| 2:06.6 | And they had the idea of making this documentary. And they called the director, Brett Ratner, |
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