Donald Trump on the set of The Apprentice.
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When Donald Trump emerged with raised fist from 2024’s never-ending cortisol blast of an election last year, liberal-leaning Hollywood responded to the news with questions. Following a wave of predictably anguished celebrity tweets, the first was: What does this mean for our bottom line? The second: How do we make Trump 2.0 work in our favor? “Cable cowboy” John Malone, the Liberty Media billionaire who once owned stakes in Starz Entertainment and the Weinstein Company, began agitating for a wave of new merger activity that would have been unimaginable under the Biden administration’s regulatory anvil. Warner Bros. Discovery’s…
