President Donald Trump reported a $10.71 million licensing payment for “Melania,” the Amazon MGM Studios documentary in regards to the First Woman, as revenue on his 2025 monetary disclosure report.
Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid a complete of $40 million to amass “Melania” and spent $35 million to market the film. The documentary garnered about $16.6 million on the theatrical field workplace worldwide, and Amazon subsequently launched the pic on Prime Video.
Trump’s monetary disclosure assertion additionally listed a $521,161 licensing cost for the First Woman’s “Melania” memoir from Skyhorse Publishing in addition to $6 million in web proceeds from “NFTs and different collectibles” related to Melania Trump.
The president’s necessary monetary disclosure assertion, launched Tuesday, confirmed Trump reported a complete of at the very least $2.2 billion in income for 2025, greater than double from a minimal of $622 million the 12 months prior. Final 12 months Trump earned roughly $1.4 billion from his household’s crypto companies, together with World Liberty Monetary, as reported by the New York Occasions. An funding agency tied to the United Arab Emirates authorities purchased a 49% stake in World Liberty Monetary in January 2025, “elevating a slew of moral issues,” per the Occasions report.
Trump additionally owns a various portfolio of shares and bonds, together with securities in media firms Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance and Fox Corp. and in tech firms like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle. The shares Trump owns in Trump Media & Expertise Group, mum or dad of Reality Social, are value round $900 million, after the corporate’s inventory value has fallen greater than 40% this 12 months.
In a press release, White Home spokeswoman Anna Kelly mentioned, “Neither the President nor his household has ever engaged — or will ever have interaction — in conflicts of curiosity.”
Concerning the crypto revenue Trump reported for 2025, Kelly mentioned, “President Trump proudly made the USA the crypto capital of the world by way of government actions, supporting laws just like the GENIUS Act, and different commonsense insurance policies to drive innovation and financial alternative for all Individuals. All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the most effective curiosity of the American folks — and any so-called ‘reporters’ pushing in any other case are recycling the identical, drained, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade.”
On the “Melania” entrance, Democrats have accused Amazon of attempting to curry favor with the Trump administration by buying and distributing the movie, with Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) explicitly calling the studio’s $40 million acquisition price ticket “bribery in plain sight.” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has mentioned that it’s “simply not appropriate” to say Amazon’s deal for “Melania” was “a approach of shopping for affect” with Trump and mentioned the acquisition of the movie “seems it was enterprise resolution.”
Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, mentioned on Selection‘s “Strictly Enterprise” podcast that there was a “very aggressive bidding course of” for “Melania” and that the film did very effectively on the field workplace and has carried out “rather well” on Prime Video.
Amazon MGM Studios expects to launch a companion docuseries for “Melania” later this 12 months.
Trump’s monetary disclosure assertion for 2025 additionally enumerates funds acquired below authorized settlements the president was concerned with. These included: Disney/ABC’s $16 million cost to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit towards ABC Information and George Stephanopoulos; CBS’s $16 million cost to settle his lawsuit alleging “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris; and funds from Meta ($24.5 million), YouTube ($22 million) and X/Twitter ($8 million) to settle Trump’s fits alleging the web platforms engaged in “censorship” once they suspended his accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol (every of the businesses had beforehand defined that Trump’s entry was lower off as a result of he promoted violence in the course of the incident). The funds from Disney/ABC, CBS and Meta went to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Basis, and the Alphabet/YouTube cost went to the Belief for the Nationwide Mall, in line with the disclosure assertion.
