President Donald Trump reported $10.71 million in revenue in his 2025 financial disclosure report as a license fee for Amazon MGM Studios’ documentary about the first lady, “Melania.”
Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid a total of $40 million for “Melania” and spent $35 million marketing the film. The documentary earned approximately $16.6 million at the worldwide theatrical box office, and Amazon subsequently released the picture on Prime Video.
President Trump’s financial disclosure statement also lists a $521,161 license fee payment from Skyhorse Publishing for the first lady’s memoir, “Melania,” and $6 million in net proceeds from “NFTs and other collectibles” related to Melania Trump.
The president’s mandatory financial disclosure statement released Tuesday shows Trump reported total revenues of at least $2.2 billion in 2025, more than double the previous year’s low of $622 million. Trump made about $1.4 billion last year from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, including World Liberty Financial, according to a report in the New York Times. The Times reported that an investment firm with ties to the United Arab Emirates government bought a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial in January 2025, “raising a number of ethical concerns.”
Mr. Trump also owns a diverse portfolio of stocks and bonds, including securities in media companies such as Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance, and Fox Corporation, as well as tech companies such as Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle. Mr. Trump’s stake in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, is worth about $900 million after the company’s stock price has fallen more than 40% this year.
“Neither the president nor his family has ever been involved in a conflict of interest, and will never be,” White House press secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement.
Regarding President Trump’s reported 2025 crypto income, Kelly said, “Through executive actions, support for legislation like the GENIUS Act, and other common sense policies to promote innovation and economic opportunity for all Americans, President Trump will proudly lead America to the world.” Every action by President Trump and his administration is being taken in the best interest of the American people. And any so-called “reporter” who claims otherwise is recycling the same tired false narrative that Democrats are pushing. And Legacy Media has been promoting it for 10 years. ”
As for “Melania,” Democrats have accused Amazon of trying to curry favor with the Trump administration by acquiring and distributing the film, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) explicitly calling the studio’s $40 million purchase price “blatant bribery.” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said it was “absolutely not true” that Amazon’s deal for “Melania” was “a way to buy influence” with President Trump, adding that acquiring the film “appears to have been a good business decision.”
Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, told Variety’s Strictly Business podcast that there was a “very competitive bidding process” for “Melania,” and that the film did very well at the box office and did “very well” at Prime Video.
Amazon MGM Studios plans to release a companion documentary series to “Melania” later this year.
President Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure statement also lists payments received under legal settlements in which the president was involved. That includes Disney/ABC paying $16 million to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos. CBS has paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris. Meta ($24.5 million), YouTube ($22 million), and X/Twitter ($8 million) were paid to settle Trump’s lawsuit alleging that internet platforms engaged in “censorship” when they suspended his accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. (The companies previously said their access was cut off because Trump encouraged violence during the incident.) Payments from Disney/ABC, CBS and Meta went to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, while payments from Alphabet/YouTube went to the National Mall Trust, according to the disclosure statement.
