Jeff Bezos cozies up to president-elect as Amazon licenses Melania Trump documentary.

• Melania Trump documentary film to be licensed by Amazon Prime Video.
• Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, had initially pledged to donate $1 million to the President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund and later withdrew his support for Vice President Kamala Harris after the Washington Post endorsed her.
• The Washington Post cartoonist resigned following the paper's decision to shelve a cartoon depicting Bezos, Zuckerberg, Altman, and others kneeling before Trump.

Amazon Prime Video has announced that it is acquiring a documentary film about Melania Trump.

The movie was first reported by Fox News.com, and later came to light weeks after a Wall Street Journal report that Jeff Bezos planned to donate $1 million to the inaugural fund of President-elect Donald Trump.

After his election win over Vice President Kamala Harris, Bezos, who has previously been criticized by Trump, met with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

An upcoming documentary film has been exclusively licensed by Amazon Prime Video for both theatrical and streaming release, providing viewers with an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at First Lady Melania Trump, a spokesperson for Amazon said Sunday.

The filming of the project started in December 2024 and is expected to be released in the second half of 2025. Prime Video will provide updates on the project as filming continues and release plans are finalized. We are thrilled to share this one-of-a-kind story with our global audience.

The Melania Trump movie is being directed by Brett Ratner, who was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017 and has not made a movie since then. The movie is being executive produced by Fernando Sulichin of New Element Media.

Bezos, with an estimated $238 billion fortune, is the second wealthiest person in the world, and CNBC has requested a comment from him.

In 2019, Amazon accused the Pentagon of canceling a $10 billion cloud computing contract due to Trump's "inappropriate pressure" to harm his political rival, Bezos.

The Melania Trump movie deal was revealed two days after a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos, announced she had resigned due to her bosses blocking the publication of a satirical cartoon depicting Bezos and other billionaires kneeling before Trump.

The cartoon depicts satirical illustrations of Bezos, Altman, and Zuckerberg presenting Trump with bags containing money, while another man, representing Soon-Shiong, is shown kneeling before Trump with a lipstick tube.

In October, the LA Times' endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election against Trump was blocked by Soon-Shiong.

The Washington Post's news section previously reported that Bezos decided not to publish the paper's planned editorial page endorsement of Harris.

In a blog post on Friday, Telnaes revealed that the Post had never before killed one of her cartoons due to the subject or target of her drawing.

Telnaes wrote that the cartoon he killed criticizes billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been trying to win Trump's favor.

David Shipley, the Washington Post editorial page editor, stated that the cartoon was not published due to the fact that the paper had recently published a column on the same topic and had already scheduled another satirical piece for publication.

Against repetition was the sole bias, as Shipley stated.

Publisher Will Lewis has stated that Bezos did not contribute to the withdrawal of Harris's endorsement.

The endorsement was spiked, leading several members of the Post's editorial board to resign from the board.

According to NPR, approximately 12% of all digital subscriptions were canceled between October 24, when the news outlet broke the story of the killed endorsement, and Election Day. This represents a total of 300,000 people who canceled their subscriptions.