Melania Trump to release Amazon Prime documentary about her life

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 January 6, 2025

Fresh off releasing her best-selling memoir, Melania Trump is taking over Amazon Prime next. 

The First Lady has reached an agreement with Amazon to tell the remarkable story of her life in a documentary, Fox News reported. The deal is the latest sign of the Trump family's newfound popularity and return to the cultural mainstream, which has left liberals seething.

"We are excited to share this truly unique story with our millions of customers around the world," an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement.

Melania documentary deal

Melania will serve as an executive producer for the movie, giving her creative control over the project. The movie will be released for streaming and in theaters in the latter half of 2025.

The Amazon deal is the latest move from the newly public First Lady, who has long been an elusive figure and, like her husband, frequently disparaged in mainstream media.

Donald Trump often clashed with Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who he called "Jeff Bozo," in the past over coverage from the Washington Post.

The liberal newspaper, which Bezos owns, was a central player in the anti-Trump "resistance" during Trump's first term, famously adopting the slogan "democracy dies in darkness" in protest of Trump's 2016 win. Since Trump's re-election in November, his liberal opposition has been mostly resigned to his spectacular resurgence, which capped almost a decade of constant efforts to demonize him and his family.

Jeff "Bozo" changes tune

As Trump returns to Washington with more popularity than he enjoyed in his first term, former critics of his, including Silicon Valley billionaires he once fought with, are looking to curry favor with the president-elect.

Filming for the Melania documentary began in December after Trump's re-election, as Bezos changed his tune on the Donald. Bezos had previously inflamed liberals by refusing to let the Washington Post endorse Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

"What I've seen so far is he is calmer than he was the first time and more settled," he said at The New York Times' DealBook Summit. "You've probably grown in the last eight years. He has too."

Melania Trump released her first memoir, Melania, at the climax of the 2024 presidential campaign. The book remains at the top of the New York Times best-seller list.

The famously private First Lady came into her own in 2024, sharing sharp criticism of her husband's political opponents in the Democratic party, the mainstream media and the federal government, which conducted a raid of the Trumps' Florida estate in 2022. She came to her husband's defense after a harrowing assassination attempt that he survived by inches.

Bezos praised Trump's courage under fire at the time, later congratulating Trump on "an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory."

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