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Miles Archer

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Wed Feb 4, 2026, 10:37 PM Wednesday

Reporter asks The First Nude about her ghoulish behavior, resulting in MAGAts calling the reporter a ghoul. PROJECTION! [View all]

MAGA Melts Down Over ‘Ghoul’ Reporter’s Melania Question
‘RUDE’
Right-wing accounts flipped out at a journalist asking the first lady why she was promoting her documentary at an official White House event.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-melts-down-over-ghoul-reporters-melania-question/

The MAGA sphere took offense to a White House reporter asking why the first lady promoted her documentary during a meeting with freed Israeli-American hostages.

Melania Trump, 55, was questioned by CNN’s Betsy Klein on Wednesday about why she promoted her film Melania while meeting with freed hostages Keith Siegel and his wife, Aviva, at the White House. This sent supporters of the Trump administration into an online crisis, accusing the reporter of being “rude” and a “ghoul.”

When confronted by Klein on why she was bringing up the film—from which she made $28 million—in that setting, Melania denied having done so.

“This is not promotion,” Melania responded to Klein. “We are here celebrating the release of the hostages, of Aviva and Keith. They were in Washington, D.C., and they called me and they said they would like to come over to thank me and to give hugs. That’s why we are here. There’s nothing to do with promotion.”

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