Earlier this yr, Ted Sarandos backed a winner in new Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman, and now the Netflix co-CEO is heading to Florida to make mates in even increased locations.
Someday after Donald Trump bragged in a Mat-a-Lago press convention that “all people desires to be my good friend,” Sarandos can be breaking bread with the President-elect, sources near the scenario have confirmed for Deadline.
Neither Netflix nor the Trump transition staff replied to requests for touch upon the scheduled Tuesday sit-down. If and after they do, this submit can be up to date.
Having scored a $15 million payout and an apology from ABC Information this weekend to settle a defamation go well with Trump had hit the Disney-owned outlet and anchor George Stephanopoulos with, the previous and future POTUS has indicated fairly strongly he intends to sue increasingly media organizations even after he get again within the Oval Workplace.
“We now have to straighten out our press,” he stated talking earlier than noticeably respectful reporters Monday. “Our press may be very corrupt, nearly as corrupt as our elections,” Trump added, whereas itemizing off retailers he doesn’t like (CBS’ 60 Minutes, the Des Moines Register) and people he does (a.ok.a. Fox Information hosts previous and current like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity).
Whereas Sarandos and partner Nicole Avant, America’s Ambassador to the Bahamas in the course of the first time period of Barack Obama’s presidency, have lengthy been deep pocketed donors to the Democratic Social gathering, the pilgrimage by the streaming boss follows an extended line of media executives kissing the Trump ring in latest days. Former Trump antagonists like Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple‘s Tim Cook dinner and at this time TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew have schlepted to Trump’s Florida residence to curry favor. First Buddy, world’s richest man and now Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is claimed to have sat in on a few of the classes.
Placing their cash the place they mouths are, Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who is ready to take a seat with Trump earlier than Christmas, have each donated $1 million to the forty fifth and forty seventh President’s inaugural fund. Musk’s ex-pal and now foe OpenAI chief Sam Altman has nearly put up 1,000,000 bucks for Trump’s second swearing in.
The shift in MSM POV started even earlier than Trump received again in as Washington Publish proprietor Bezos, just like the LA Instances‘ proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong, pulled a written endorsements by the paper of VP Kamala Harris within the weeks earlier than the election. Whereas the billionaires insisted they needed stability and a return to a non-endorsements coverage, the strikes had been broadly seen as preemptive makes an attempt to curry favor.
For these of you who bear in mind the previous Celeb Apprentice host’s first time period, Trump had a rocky (to place it politely) relationship with MSM and Huge Tech.
TikTok specifically felt the ache.
Citing nationwide safety considerations about Chinese language possession of TikTok, Trump unsuccessfully tried to have the platform banned again in 2020. Now as TikTok requested the Supreme Court docket to throw them a lifeline earlier than a January 19 promote deadline, Trump says he has “heat emotions” in the direction of the app. Right this moment and in latest months, Trump has additionally stated he’s contemplating placing the boots to an nearly sure banning of the platform by the Biden administration.
As a result of the enemy of your enemy is sort of all the time your good friend.
With that, Netflix founder Reed Hastings, who gave massive bucks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed White Home marketing campaign this yr, doesn’t seem like he’s heading to Mar-a-Lago anytime quickly, I’m instructed. But, with that 60 Minutes lawsuit looming, don’t be shocked if soon-to-be new Paramount proprietor David Ellison and his dad Oracle kingpin Larry Ellison are jetting over to the Sunshine State soon-ish.
CNN Media reporter Alayna Treene first reported the information of the Trump/Sarandos assembly.