Amazon to Release Documentary About Melania Trump's Life

Amazon announced on Sunday that its Prime Video streaming service will release a documentary about Melania Trump's life. The film will be released in theaters and on Amazon Prime in the second half of this year. Mrs. Trump will be an executive producer of the documentary, which began filming in December, the month after her husband, Donald J. Trump, won the presidential election.

Amazon said it was "excited to share this truly unique story." The company and its founder, Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, had a rocky relationship with Mr. Trump during his first presidential term. However, in recent months, Amazon and Mr. Bezos have taken steps to repair it. The tech giant said last month that it would donate $1 million to the president-elect's inaugural fund, joining Meta and executives of some other Silicon Valley companies in writing checks to the inaugural committee. Mr. Bezos has said he is "very optimistic" about Mr. Trump's new term in office and is eager to work with his administration on reducing regulation.

During his first presidential term, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. Bezos because of his newspaper's political coverage and questioned whether the U.S. Postal Service was charging Amazon too little for shipping. Amazon, in turn, accused Mr. Trump of using "improper pressure" on the Pentagon to deny the company a cloud-computing contract.