Team Trump Told Max Boss to Kiss Up by Giving Don Jr. a Show

Media giant Warner Bros. Discovery was reportedly offered a way into President Donald Trump's good graces: Give his son, Donald Trump Jr., his own show.
Specifically, someone in the 'Trump orbit' told the company that the first son would like to host a nature show on Discovery, according to a sprawling new profile of WBD's CEO David Zaslav penned by the writer Michael Wolff for New York Magazine.
Wolff has authored several books on President Donald Trump's ascent to power, which his team have repeatedly slammed as containing falsehoods and exaggerations.
'WBD confirmed that a company representative recently reached out to the Trump orbit seeking advice about how the company might advantageously interact with the White House and improve its Trump-age odor,' Wolff wrote.
While WBD owns several notable properties like Max and the Discovery Channel, it also owns CNN, the news network that has for years been the target of Trump's anger.
'The reported message was to look at the example of Amazon and Jeff Bezos paying Melania Trump $40 million to participate in a documentary about herself,' he continued. 'Don Jr. might like a hunting and fishing show on the Discovery Channel, they were told. And that CNN could have more pro-Trump voices.'
In a statement to the Daily Beast, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said: 'Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s*** and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.'
Wolff recently attracted the Trump administration's ire after publishing a book on his 2024 presidential campaign, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America. When asked about revelations claimed in the book by the Daily Beast in February, Cheung again branded the author as a 'lying sack' of feces with a 'peanut-sized brain.'
Representatives for WBD did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast's request for comment.
The media conglomerate's reported attempt at currying favor with the president is but one example of a shifting industry landscape trying to adjust to the glaring light of Trump's second term.
Paramount Global for example, has reportedly scaled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to appease the Trump administration's directives as it seeks FCC approval for a merger deal with Hollywood power player Skydance Media.

Try Our AI Features

Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:

Learn with AIFact CheckingText to SpeechAI Summary

Related Articles

Bloomberg

30 minutes ago

• Bloomberg

Netherlands Defence Minister: NATO-wide 5% defence spend would be "historic"

Ruben Brekelmans, Netherlands Minister of Defence said they and their European partners support President Donald Trump's calls to encourage Iran to the negotiation table in order to "come to a sustainable solution". Speaking about the upcoming NATO meeting, he told Bloomberg's Oliver Crook "if we agree to 5% spending on core defence and defence-related matters, that would be a historic step" and said it would be of particular significance "if 32 allies in unity agree on this". (Source: Bloomberg)

Fox News

31 minutes ago

• Fox News

Ted Cruz: Biden's foreign policy 'accelerated' Iran's nuclear program

All times eastern FOX News Radio Live Channel Coverage WATCH LIVE: Trump to huddle with top brass after hammering Iran's nuclear sites

The Hill

32 minutes ago

• The Hill

Leavitt: ‘High degree of confidence' strikes hit Iran's stored enriched uranium

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday the Trump administration has a 'high degree of confidence' that its strikes against Iran hit locations where enriched uranium was being stored amid questions about whether officials in Tehran had relocated the nation's stockpile. 'We are confident, yes, that Iran's nuclear sites were completely and totally obliterated, as the president said in his address to the nation on Saturday night,' Leavitt said on ABC. 'And we have a high degree of confidence that where those strikes took place is where Iran's enriched uranium was stored,' she added. 'The president wouldn't have launched the strikes if we weren't confident in that. So this operation was a resounding success.' The U.S. on Saturday struck three Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. President Trump described them in an address to the nation as 'completely and totally obliterated,' something he reiterated in a social media post late Sunday. But experts have acknowledged it would take time to determine the extent of the damage from U.S. strikes, and some reports raising the possibility that Iran moved some of its enriched uranium away from those sites ahead of the attack. 'Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,' Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said Sunday. The New York Times reported that there was evidence Iran had moved equipment and uranium from the Fordow site in recent days, citing two Israeli officials. The Times also cited text messages from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency indicating Iran had moved its uranium stockpile. Trump administration officials have maintained that the purpose of the strikes was to decimate Iran's nuclear program and severely curtail Tehran's ability to develop a nuclear weapon. 'We're not at war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program,' Vice President Vance said Sunday on NBC News's 'Meet the Press.'