President Donald Trump reported a $10.71 million licensing fee as income as part of his 2025 financial disclosure report for “Melania,” the Amazon MGM Studios documentary about the First Lady.
Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40 million to acquire “Melania” and spent $35 million to market the movie. The documentary took in about $16.6 million at the theatrical box office worldwide.
Trump’s financial disclosure statement also listed a $521,161 licensing payment for the First Lady’s “Melania” memoir from Skyhorse Publishing as well as $6 million in net proceeds from “NFTs and other collectibles” associated with Melania Trump.
The president’s mandatory financial disclosure statement, released Tuesday, showed Trump reported a total of at least $2.2 billion in revenue for 2025, more than double from a minimum of $622 million the year prior. Last year Trump earned roughly $1.4 billion from his family’s crypto businesses, including World Liberty Financial, as reported by the New York Times. An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates government bought a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial in January 2025, “raising a slew of ethical concerns,” per the Times report.
Trump also owns a diverse portfolio of stocks and bonds, including in media companies Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance and Fox Corp. and tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle. The shares Trump owns in Trump Media & Technology Group, parent of Truth Social, are worth around $900 million, after the company’s stock price has fallen more than 40% this year.
