Donald Trump pocketed more than $10 million from Amazon’s Melania documentary

The documentary film dedicated to his wife, despite very limited success in the cinema, allowed the President to cash a nice check signed by Jeff Bezos’ company.

The documentary Melaniaproduced by Amazon MGM Studios and dedicated to the First Lady, brought in $10 million for Donald Trump.

The information appears in the 2025 financial declaration of the President of the United States, published this week and reported by the American press.

The document reveals that Donald Trump received precisely $10.71 million in licensing fees related to the film.

According to several American media, Amazon MGM Studios would have paid 40 million dollars to acquire the documentary, before investing another 35 million in its promotion. Despite these considerable resources, Melania only grossed around $16.6 million at the worldwide box office before being released online on Prime Video.

But the income linked to Melania Trump does not stop there: the financial declaration also shows $ 521,161 received thanks to the rights to her autobiography Melaniapublished by Skyhorse Publishing, as well as $6 million from the sale of NFTs and other merchandise associated with the First Lady.

The acquisition of the documentary by Amazon sparked heated controversy in the United States. Several elected Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, had accused Jeff Bezos’ group of seeking to curry favor with the Trump administration. The parliamentarian even went so far as to describe the 40 million dollars spent by the studio as “open corruption”. Jeff Bezos has always rejected these accusations, ensuring that the operation was a simple business decision and not an attempt to influence the president.

More generally, Donald Trump’s financial declaration shows that he declared at least $2.2 billion in income in 2025, more than triple the approximately $622 million declared a year earlier. She also confirms that he still holds a large stock portfolio, including stakes in Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance, Fox Corp., but also Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and Oracle.

The White House, for its part, assured in a press release that “neither the president nor his family have ever been, and never will be, in a situation of conflict of interest.”