President Donald Trump hosted a private White House movie night on Saturday for 'Melania'. The documentary is centered on first lady Melania Trump, prompting sharp criticism from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who questioned the president’s priorities as another fatal ICE shooting of Alex Pretti, ICU nurse, unfolded in Minneapolis the same day.
“Today DHS assassinated a VA nurse in the street, Bondi is attempting to extort voter files, and half the country is bracing on the eve of a potentially crippling ice storm with FEMA gutted. So what is the President up to? Having a movie night at the White House. He’s unfit,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media, reacting to the screening amid multiple domestic crises.
According to the White House’s public calendar, Trump and the first lady screened the Amazon MGM Studios documentary at the White House in an event that was not open to the press pool.
Federal shooting in Minneapolis
Today DHS assassinated a VA nurse in the street, Bondi is attempting to extort voter files, and half the country is bracing on the eve of a potentially crippling ice storm with FEMA gutted.So what is the President up to? Having a movie night at the White House.
He’s unfit. https://t.co/fW1dzoZ8uH
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 25, 2026
The backlash came amid another federal agent-involved shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. Multiple videos shared online, and eyewitness accounts show a confrontation between federal agents and a man in south Minneapolis near 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue. Authorities later said the man was shot and killed.
Local officials have released few verified details about the sequence of events, saying they had little direct information from federal authorities as they responded to the scene.
Federal authorities claimed that Alex was armed with a gun and two magazines at the time of the shooting, though videos circulating online have raised questions about the narrative, as Alex never reached out for his gun, and the agents had removed the gun from his pocket before they shot him cold-bloodedly.
The shooting marks at least the third federal agent-involved incident in Minneapolis in recent weeks, following the October 7 killing of 37-year-old Renée Good by an ICE agent and another earlier incident in the city that resulted in a non-fatal shooting by a federal agent.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he had spoken with the White House about the latest shooting and called the incident “sickening” while urging a halt to the federal enforcement operation in the state.
Movie night at the White House
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the screening was attended by guests like, director Brett Ratner; Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Lisa Su; Mike Tyson; socialite and Fiat heiress Azzi Agnelli; self-help guru Tony Robbins; and photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who shot the movie poster for the film.
The documentary, released by Amazon MGM Studios, “offers unprecedented access to the 20 days leading up to the 2025 Presidential Inauguration — through the eyes of the First Lady herself,” according to its official description.
Puck News reported that Amazon paid $40 million for the rights to the film and is spending an additional $35 million on promotion, and that executives from Apple, Amazon, and other major tech firms were invited to the screening.
