‘Melania’ Is Really About Barron

What is the future of Trumpism? “Melania,” the new documentary from Amazon, offers a striking answer. Following the first lady through the twenty days leading to her husband Donald Trump’s second inauguration, it presents her as a woman who exercises power—not by directly intervening in politics, as some previous first ladies have done, but rather by shaping the men who shape events. Melania emerges in the film not as a superficial fashionista, but as a queen determined to see her son reach the throne.