Melania: Twenty Days to History, whose unusual genesis (a $40 million bid from Amazon, which was reported to include a roughly $28 million personal fee for #Melania #Trump, & a further $35 million marketing budget) & aggressive rollout across >,300 theaters reveal an awful lot about our #entertainment infrastructure, none of it good.

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(“A big fat #bribe” is how the late-night host Stephen Colbert characterized CBS’s $16 million #settlement to #Trump, shortly before his own #CBS show was canceled; CBS called the cancellation “purely a financial decision.”) And so you can’t see #AskEJean, but you have no end of options this weekend when it comes to watching a “documentary” about the current first lady, Melania: Twenty Days to History

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Trump’s lack of impulse control & trigger-happy litigiousness have often collapsed in court, but they’ve had a profound impact on the #entertainment industry. Both #ABC & #CBS have #settled lawsuits served by #Trump rather than fight, seemingly deducing that the cost & capitulation are worth it if they smooth the way for mergers & keep the mercurial & #media-fixated president off their backs.

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