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Katie Couric<\/strong> had her social media followers in stitches with a recent comment about Melania Trump<\/strong>‘s new documentary.<\/p>\n A clip from the 2026 documentary Melania was posted to Threads earlier in the week, showing the first lady riding in her car while singing along to Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong>‘s “Billie Jean.”<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfacSIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a>\ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n The person who posted the video<\/a> said the singing clip was their “favorite” part of the movie and that Melania “did a great job” with the film\u2014but Couric, 69, had just one word in response: “Riveting.”<\/p>\n Couric’s reply appeared to be oozing with sarcasm, as she’s been known to speak out against<\/a>Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> and his administration on many occasions before.<\/p>\n Couric’s cheeky one-liner garnered some applause from several users on Threads, including one user<\/a> who said the former Today show host was “spot on” with her sarcastic<\/a> response.<\/p>\n “I just love Katie Couric\u2019s shade game,” another user added<\/a>.<\/p>\n Someone else told<\/a> Couric, “I giggled so hard when I saw your comment.”<\/p>\n “Shady Couric is giving me life!!!” another fan wrote<\/a>, while more Threads users left more comments like<\/a>, “I could smell the sarcasm from here,” and “Love when Katie trolls<\/a>.”<\/p>\n “Katie with a one-liner!” another user applauded<\/a>.<\/p>\n Melania\u2014which follows the first lady in the weeks leading up to Trump’s second presidential inauguration in 2025\u2014released in theaters worldwide on Jan. 30, before arriving on Amazon’s Prime Video earlier this month.<\/p>\n Related: Katie Couric Calls Out ‘Inappropriate’ Comments About Catherine O’Hara’s Death<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Mar 19, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Katie Couric had her social media followers in stitches with a recent comment about Melania Trump‘s new documentary. A clip from the 2026 documentary Melania was posted to Threads earlier in the week, showing the first lady riding in her car while singing along to Michael Jackson‘s “Billie Jean.” \ud83c\udfacSIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2338002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[444089,22389,378062,31122,304696],"class_list":["post-2338001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-billie-jean","tag-donald-trump","tag-katie-couric","tag-melania-trump","tag-michael-jackson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Katie-Couric-Gives-1-Word-Response-to-Melania-Trump-Documentary.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338003,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338001\/revisions\/2338003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}