My firestick keeps urging me to watch "Melania" so

[Takket]

4. true it lost money but as i keep pointing out.....

the vanity project for melania was never meant to make money, nor was it ever expected to make money. Bezos didn't make this film because he thought it was a good idea and people would enjoy it. he made it as a direct payout/bribe to drumpf in return for favorable regulations/contracts elsewhere

Case in point:

https://fortune.com/2025/09/25/amazon-got-off-easy-historic-2-5-billion-prime-deceptive-practices-settlement/

think of how many billions amazon saved by the FTC letting them wriggle out of this trial with the fine they did. spending $40 million to give a dumbass idiot sociopath nobody likes a movie to tell her how fantastic she is seems like a small price to pay against fines potentially in the 10s of billions if you don't pay a bribe......

(Hot take......... bribery is still a thing, and if there is ever going to be anything close to a recovery from this era of disaster from our country, it is not enough to prosecute the politicians that did this to us, we also have to go after the CEOs openly bribing the president, like Bezos and Cook, and put them in prison)..........