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Hollywood Braces for a ‘Masks Off’ Trump Era
“There’s more fear in the executive suites now than there ever has been.”
Warner Bros. Discovery’s much-hated CEO, David Zaslav, rejoiced at the impending regime change, pondering Trump redux as a crucial antidote to Federal Trade Commission hostility toward acquisitions, opening the door to ever-greater corporate gigantism in media. Within weeks, industry speculation turned inward.Hollywood’s corridors of power are uniquely vulnerable to blowback from a notoriously vindictive president (who in 2018 lobbied the postmaster general to double postal rates for Amazon shipments to retaliate against Jeff Bezos for critical coverage in the Washington Post). Iger’s stewardship has also been subject to no small amount of MAGA backbiting, with Trump castigating Disney on social media as a “woke and disgusting shadow of its former self,” even taking time to criticize the studio’s diverse casting practices in movies such as 2023’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
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