Former UNITED STATE President and Republican governmental prospect Donald Trump and previous initial woman Melania Trump smile after talking throughout a political election evening occasion at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, earlyNov 6, 2024.
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Amazon Prime Video revealed Sunday that it is certifying a documentary regarding once-and-future initial woman Melania Trump.
The flick, initially reported by Fox News.com, emerged weeks after a Wall Street Journal record that Jeff Bezos, the owner and exec chairman of Amazon, prepared to give away $1 million to the inaugural fund of President- choose Donald Trump.
Bezos, that has actually formerly been slammed by Trump, additionally met the president-elect at his Mar- a-Lago club in Florida after his political election sway Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Amazon Prime Video has exclusively licensed an upcoming documentary film for both theatrical and streaming release that will give viewers an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at First Lady Melania Trump,” an Amazon speaker claimed Sunday.
“Filming began in December 2024, with an anticipated release in the second half of 2025. Prime Video will be sharing more details on the project as filming progresses and release plans are finalized. We are excited to share this truly unique story with our millions of customers around the world,” the speaker claimed.
The Melania Trump flick is being executive generated by Fernando Sulichin of New Element Media and is being guided by Brett Ratner, that in 2017 was charged by numerous ladies of sex-related transgression. Ratner, that rejected the claims, had actually not made a flick ever since.
has actually connected for remark from Bezos, whose approximated $238 billion lot of money places him atNo 2 on Forbes’ checklist of most affluent individuals on the planet.
In a 2019 claim, Amazon affirmed it shed a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon to Microsoft due to the fact that Trump utilized “improper pressure … to harm his perceived political enemy,” Bezos.
Jeff Bezos, owner and exec chairman of Amazon and proprietor of the Washington Post, talks throughout the New York Times yearly DealBook top at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 inNew York City
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The Melania Trump flick bargain emerged 2 days after Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize- winning illustrator at The Washington Post– which is possessed by Bezos– claimed she had actually surrendered from the paper due to the fact that her employers obstructed the magazine of a ridiculing anime illustrating Bezos and various other billionaires stooping prior to Trump.
The anime includes ridiculing illustrations of Bezos, OpenAI CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sam Altman and Meta Platforms CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Mark Zuckerberg standing up bags with buck indications to Trump, that gets on a stand. Another guy seen stooping prior to Trump, standing up a lipstick tube, stands for Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire author and proprietor of the Los Angeles Times paper.
Soon-Shiong in October obstructed the LA Times’ prepared recommendation of Vice President Kamala Harris in the governmental political election versus Trump.
Satirical illustration by Washington Post illustrator Ann Telnaes, that surrendered after it was turned down.
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The Washington Post’s information area formerly reported that Bezos determined that the paper would certainly not release its very own organized content web page recommendation of Harris.
Telnaes in an article Friday composed that it was the very first time that the Post eliminated among her animations “because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at.”
“The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump,” Telnaes composed.
Washington Post content web page editor David Shipley claimed the anime was turned down due to the fact that “we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column – this one a satire – for publication.”
“The only bias was against repetition,” Shipley claimed in a declaration.
Post author Will Lewis has actually rejected that Bezos contributed in eliminating the Harris recommendation.
Several participants of the Post’s content board surrendered from that board as a result of the choice to increase the recommendation.
NPR on Saturday reported that 300,000 individuals terminated electronic registrations in between that information electrical outlet damaging the information of the eliminated recommendation onOct 24 andElection Day That tally “represents about 12% of all digital subscriptions,” according to NPR.