{"id":337170,"date":"2025-12-08T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337170\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:45:07","slug":"trump-lashes-out-at-paramount-owners-in-rant-about-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337170\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lashes Out At Paramount Owners In Rant About &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> said that the Ellison-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a> is \u201cno better than the old ownership,\u201d as he lashed out at the company over a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/60-minutes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_60-minutes\" data-tag=\"60-minutes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">60 Minutes<\/a> interview with new nemesis Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump\u2019s comments came just after<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/paramount-launches-hostile-takeover-bid-warner-bros-discovery-1236641640\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Paramount launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>. On Friday, Netflix was announced as the winning bidder for WBD\u2019s studio assets and HBO and HBO Max, with the cable networks spun off into a separate entity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump posted on Truth Social, \u201cThe only reason Marjorie \u2018Traitor\u2019 Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!). Too much work, not enough time, and her ideas are, NOW, really BAD \u2013 She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple! Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump added, \u201cThat was proven last night when washed up, Trump hating, 60 Minutes \u201ccorrespondent,\u201d Lesley Stahl, who still owes me an apology from when she attacked me on the show (with serious conviction!), that Hunter Biden\u2019s LAPTOP FROM HELL was produced by Russia, not Hunter himself (TOTALLY PROVEN WRONG!), interviewed a very poorly prepared Traitor, who in her confusion made many really stupid statements. My real problem with the show, however, wasn\u2019t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE! Oh well, far worse things can happen. P.S. I hereby demand a complete and total APOLOGY, though far too late to be meaningful, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter\u2019s Laptop!!! President DJT\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe leadership of Paramount and Netflix have been trying to win the president\u2019s support for their respective plans for Warner Bros. On Sunday, at the Kennedy Center Honors, Trump told Deadline that a Netflix takeover of Warner Bros. \u201ccould be a problem\u201d given the streamer\u2019s market share, although the president was effusive in his praise for co-CEO Ted Sarandos. Trump said that he met with Sarandos last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Netflix agreement to acquire Warner Bros. does not include CNN, long one of Trump\u2019s targets, while Paramount\u2019s bid does. The previous Paramount regime paid $16 million to settle a Trump lawsuit against <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>, over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris. That settlement came as Skydance and Paramount were seeking regulatory approval to close their merger transaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince then, Trump has praised Paramount CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david-ellison\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-ellison\" data-tag=\"david-ellison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Ellison<\/a>, whose father, Larry, is a longtime ally. Trump did sit down for an interview with 60 Minutes, with Norah O\u2019Donnell questioning him during a 90-minute session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt was edited for a 60 Minutes segment, but the show released a transcript. The show has continued to do hard-hitting segments on the administration, and the Greene interview was with a figure who has emerged as one of the president\u2019s most vocal critics from the right. She helped lead a congressional effort last month to release the files of Jeffrey Epstein, and she has spoken out about the lack of GOP response to the pending rise in Affordable Care Act premiums. Greene<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-fallout-trump-1236626378\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> announced recently that she would leave Congress<\/a> early next year, citing the possibility that Trump would enlist a primary challenger against her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpokespersons for Paramount and CBS did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump said that the Ellison-owned Paramount is \u201cno better than the old ownership,\u201d as he lashed out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10673,23,991,18205,12,5109,3,4208,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-337170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-60-minutes","tag-america","tag-cbs","tag-david-ellison","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-news","tag-paramount","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}