It doesn’t take much to teach a dog a trick in exchange for a treat. Donald Trump had a brief run at getting big business trained to do what he wanted in his first term as president. But this time around, he just went ahead and let everyone know the new way things were going to be.

Trump basically decreed that it’s no longer about getting things in return for doing what he wants. It’s about getting punished if you don’t. That’s something he picked up from Elon Musk, I’m fairly certain. Whatever restraints you think Trump had on him in his first term, he’s shrugged them off now.

The result is that we’ve already seen plenty of companies who are on the leading edge of American consumerism try to join forces with him now, at the outset of his second term.

It was unsurprising, but still disappointing. Now enter the biggest butt-kisser of them all, Jeff Bezos, who likely had a huge hand in getting Trump elected in the first place this term. Bezos, as the owner of the Washington Post, famously nixed their quadrennial tradition of endorsing a presidential candidate in 2024, opting instead to pretend that it was something other than a race between a highly-qualified candidate and a circus clown with a vendetta.

The latest move for Bezos began last month, when filming started for an Amazon Studios production of a documentary about incoming First Lady Melania Trump.

The film will be directed by Brett Ratner, famous for both the Rush Hour buddy cop movie franchise starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker and for being accused of sexual assault and harassment by six different women, leading to the end of his $450 million co-producing deal with Warner Brothers.

That might have something to do with him making movies about someone who’s totally cool with being around a sexual abuser all the time.

Amazon Studios called it an “unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look” into Melania’s life in a statement to Fox News, who of course were eager to report on the upcoming film. Doing the movie is just the latest in a series of moves by Bezos to patch things up with Trump after years of feuding publicly with him.

Bezos and Amazon have already donated a million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund and announced it will stream the inauguration on Amazon Prime, another in-kind gift worth at least a million dollars, if not more.

All of this comes fresh on the heels of the Washington Post killing another anti-Trump publication, a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Ann Telnaes. The panel depicted Bezos and other tech billionaires bowing in front of a giant Trump with bags of money in their hands.

Gosh, I wonder what made him axe that.

Ratner attempted to weasel his way back into the movie scene in 2021 with a biopic about Milli Vanilli, but his refusal to apologize for the events that he was accused of — including at least one that was confirmed by actress Anna Pacquin — killed the deal.

If it’s anything like Melania’s memoir, it should be absolutely riveting, and by that, I mean very interesting to the easily entertained.