Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump attend election night at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, early November 6, 2024 Smiling after giving a speech at an event.
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Amazon Prime Video announced on Sunday that it was licensing a documentary about once and future first lady Melania Trump.
The film was first reported as Fox Newsrevealed a few weeks later wall street journal According to reports, Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman Amazonplans to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s first fund.
Bezos, who has previously been criticized by Trump, also met with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida after the president-elect defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Amazon Prime Video has exclusively licensed an upcoming documentary for theatrical release and streaming that will give viewers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at first lady Melania Trump,” an Amazon spokesperson said Sunday. .
“Filming begins in December 2024 and is expected to be released in the second half of 2025. As filming progresses and release plans are finalized, Prime Video will share more details about the project. We are excited to share this truly authentic project with millions of viewers.” Unique story.
Melania Trump’s film is executive produced by New Element Media’s Fernando Sulichin is commanding Brett RatnerIn 2017, she was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. Ratner denied the accusations and has not made a film since.
CNBC has reached out to Bezos, whose fortune is estimated at $238 billion and ranks second on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people, for comment.
In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed $10 billion in losses Cloud Computing Contract with the Pentagon Microsoft Because Trump used “undue pressure… to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, speaks at The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 4, 2024 in New York City .
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Melania Trump’s movie deal revealed two days later Ann TernasA Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at Bezos-owned Washington Post says she has resigned from the paper after her boss blocked publication of a satirical sketch depicting Bezos and other billionaires kneeling before Trump comics.
The comic features Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and meta platform Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg raised a bag emblazoned with dollar signs to a towering Trump. Another man knelt in front of Trump, holding up a lipstick tube, representing Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire publisher and owner of the Los Angeles Times.
In October, Xiong blocked the Los Angeles Times’ plan to support Vice President Kamala Harris against Trump in the presidential election.
A caricature by Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who resigned after being rejected.
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The Washington Post news section previously reported that Bezos decided that the paper would not publish its planned editorial endorsement of Harris.
Ternas wrote in a blog post on Friday that this was the first time the Post had killed off one of her cartoons “because of who or what I chose to target my pen at.”
“The slain cartoon criticized the billionaire tech and media CEOs who have been going to great lengths to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump,” Ternas wrote.
David Shipley, editorial page editor of The Washington Post, said the cartoon was rejected because “we had just published a column on the same subject as the cartoon and had another column scheduled — which was a The publication of a satirical article.
“The only bias is against repetition,” Shipley said in a statement.
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis denied that Bezos played a role in killing support for Harris.
Several members of the Washington Post editorial board resigned from the board over the decision to significantly increase their support.
NPR According to a report Saturday, 300,000 people canceled their digital subscriptions between the news outlet’s Oct. 24 announcement of the endorsement and Election Day. According to NPR, this number “accounts for approximately 12% of all digital subscriptions.”
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