The Premiere of a ‘Docu-Bribe’

“President Trump, Melania Trump and the top ranks of the Trump administration descended on the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on Thursday night for the premiere of Melania, a documentary the first lady executive produced,” the New York Times reports.

Said the president: “It’s glamorous, very glamorous… We need some glamour.”

“But what some saw as glamour, others saw as a blatant act of corporate corruption. Amazon paid $40 million to the first lady’s production company for the film rights and then ponied up another $35 million to promote it. The film’s marketing budget is 10 times what another big documentary would generally get.”

Charlie Sykes called it a “docu-bribe.”