$40M Documentary Deal Yet Another Example of Corporations Pandering to Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, it was reported that Amazon will pay $40 million to license a documentary and limited series about Melania Trump. Melania Trump was an executive producer on the documentary. The deal comes just weeks after Jeff Bezos dined with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:
“The Amazon documentary deal with Melania Trump is additional evidence of one of the world’s largest corporations pandering to the Trump administration out of both fear and a desire for enrichment.”
“The emerging morass of Trump-corporate collaboration and entanglement will surely make the Trump family richer. But even more consequentially, it will transfer money from regular people to the corporate class and erode the foundations of American democracy.”