President Donald Trump took millions of dollars last year from Hollywood companies, including an eight-figure sum tied to the Amazon-MGM documentary Melania; tens of millions of dollars in lawsuits he settled with media giants; Leftovers from appearances in TV shows and movies (including ABC’s The view!) and a payment from his Screen Actors Guild pension.
These numbers come from Trump’s annual financial disclosure, which was filed Tuesday evening and previously reviewed Hollywood Reporter.
melania, which Amazon MGM Studios released in late January, has been a particularly hot topic of conversation, with questions swirling around how much the First Lady will be compensated for the project.
The disclosure includes a licensing agreement for the film worth a total of $10.7 million, as well as $521,000 tied to accompanying memoirs published by Skyhorse.
The filing also includes a payment owed from Amazon MGM Studios of between $250,001 and $500,000, though it is not immediately clear if that is related to the case. Melania The film, or if it is related to payments from its re-release traineewhich is owned by Amazon MGM and licensed to markets around the world. In addition to the film, Melania Director Brett Ratner is also said to be filming a follow-up docu-series, which has yet to be released. Amazon reportedly paid around $40 million for the rights to the film.
The filing also pulls back the curtain on Trump’s stock and bond holdings, revealing hundreds of millions of dollars in stock and debt, including stakes in essentially every entertainment company, from Disney and Netflix to Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and Fox.
“This disclosure demonstrates once again that the Trump Organization continues to maintain a strong financial position, supported by global assets, value, significant liquidity, and a conservative balance sheet,” a Trump Organization spokesperson said in a statement. “Our debt remains incredibly low compared to the size and strength of our overall portfolio, reflecting an extremely weak financial position. The breadth and depth of this filing underscores our commitment to transparency. The report, at nearly 1,000 pages, represents one of the most comprehensive financial disclosure reports ever filed and demonstrates a level of financial transparency unparalleled in presidential history.”
Notably, the filing also indicates that Trump pledged to tender some of his shares in Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount last year, as the Justice Department was reviewing Netflix’s signed deal to acquire WBD, as well as rival Paramount’s bid.
The filing indicates that Trump intends to tender between $102,000 and $280,000 worth of WBD stock, held in two different investment accounts. That’s a relatively small portion of his total WBD holdings, which filings indicate are valued at between $433,000 and $995,000.
However, participating in the tender while his government was reviewing WBD deals highlights the inherent conflict that comes from trading stocks while running the country.
“Neither the President nor his family has ever — or will ever — engage in a conflict of interest,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, adding comments about the president’s cryptocurrency efforts. “All actions taken by President Trump and his administration are in the best interest of the American people — and any so-called ‘reporters’ who push otherwise are repeating the same tired and false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been peddling for a decade.”
Trump was asked about his holdings in a group next to Air Force One on Wednesday morning, and told reporters that his investments are managed by outside funds.
“I never talk to any of the people who manage the money, but they are in big institutions, and they invest in everything they invest,” he said.
In fact, many money managers have made their own decisions about whether to bid on the WBD properties they manage for clients. Mario Gabelli, a long-time media investor, said: THR Last year he was leaning toward floating a significant portion of the WBD shares his funds manage.
In the end, of course, there was no need to bid, with Paramount Skydance eventually upping its bid and forcing Netflix to withdraw from the WBD nomination.
The filing also includes all of President Trump’s lawsuits against media and technology companies, noting the $16 million settlement from ABC, the $16 million settlement from Paramount, and the $24.5 million settlement from Meta, all of which were pledged to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, as well as the $22 million settlement from YouTube, which was pledged to the Trust for the National Mall. There was also an $8 million settlement with X.
This includes leftovers from his countless film and television appearances over the years, including a minimal payment from ABC for The view and other programs; Minimum payment from Warner Bros. Versus appearances that include Suddenly Susan and Two weeks notice; Minimum payment from Paramount for a Spin City appearance; NBCUniversal’s minimalist look Affiliate and Little rascals; He was paid $200 to $1,000 by Entertainment Partners to appear in Zoolander and Sex and the City.
Trump also continues to receive pensions from the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, with his SAG pension totaling $77,808, and his AFTRA pension totaling $8,724.
The file includes some of the gifts he received, including $50,000 Super Bowl tickets from New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson, nearly $7,000 worth of UFC tickets from Dana White, $25,000 worth of Rolex US Open tickets, as well as Yankees, World Cup and NASCAR tickets.
