With everyone anticipating Donald Trump‘s whims seemingly every second of his second term, the former Apprentice host just brought his thumb down hard on the scale of the bids to buy Warner Bros. – and it may have made David Ellison‘s day. Earlier Sunday, as Hollywood put on the spanx to fit into the frocks and tuxes for the 83rd Golden Globes, Trump retweeted a very unambitious One America News commentary decrying Netflix‘s currently WBD board approved $83 billion effort to buy Warner Bros’ streaming and studio assets. Proclaiming “Stop The Netflix Cultural Takeover,” the December 12 opinion piece from John M. Pierce insists “the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission should treat this merger as a top-tier antitrust priority — not only for its market implications, but for what it means for free expression and America’s cultural pluralism.” The missive from the MAGA lawyer, who has represented January 6 insurrectionists in the past, adds: “Netflix should compete, not conquer. And the United States has a responsibility to ensure that no corporation can dominate the national imagination through raw market power and ideological activism. Calling the Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters-run streamer a company “that has repeatedly used its global platform to elevate progressive narratives while suppressing dissenting viewpoints,” Pierce argues in favor of Paramount‘s still rebuffed $108 billion hostile takeover offer. “It is time to say no to a woke media monopoly before the damage becomes impossible to reverse,” Pierce concludes, urging self-declared Ellison pal Trump and his crew to step in against Netflix. Meeting with “great person” Sarandos late last year, Trump has repeatedly expressed concern there “could be a problem” with the “huge market share” Netflix has, and will have even more of it if it has HBO Max and other WB assets in hand. Maintaining that a NetBros combo is “presumptively unlawful” in a letter to DC lawmakers last week, Ellison and Paramount are stepping up the pressure by going straight to shareholders and investors before its self-set January 21 deadline of take the money and run. To that, in the coming days, Paramount will be turning up the volume on its long-held contention that it will face far less regulatory hoops to jump through than Netflix. Looking at the deep and close relationship between the 79-year-old Trump and 81-year-old (and presently the fifth richest person on Earth) Larry Ellison, it has been assumed by all sides except the stock- suffering Sarandos and Peters that the man in the White House would at one point grease the wheels for his buddy and his son. Of course, Trump being Trump, the president has also complained that CBS has treated him even worse since Ellison took over last summer. Just days after Trump whined, CBS News Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss axed an already greenlit and promoted- 60 Minutes segment on the administration’s harsh deportation of migrants to a violent El Salvador prison. Having defended her pre-Christmas action in the weeks since, Weiss killed the piece because she suddenly felt it needed to be “comprehensive and fair” and include already sought out voices from the White House and/or DHS. The since widely-praised segment made it to air on the edition of 60 Minutes that airs in Canada, but has yet to see the light of Sunday in the USA. Neither the White House, nor Paramount or Netflix responded to Deadline’s request Sunday for comment on POTUS’ online stance about who should own WB. Get our Breaking News Alerts and Keep your inbox happy. Comments On Deadline Hollywood are monitored. So don't go off topic, don't impersonate anyone, and don't get your facts wrong. Comment Name Email Website Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Somebody should tell Trump that 75% of Netflix subscribers are not even Americans and at least half of the Americans who are, think he’s the biggest idiot ever born. Why does Trump think he can tell the world what culture to consume, when the world utterly despises him? Except “the world” doesn’t. It goes both ways. Trump does a lot of good and many appreciate him immensely. Thanks Netflix wants a 17-day theatrical exclusive and theaters are already struggling as it is. This deal could kill movies in theaters. No one wants to go to theaters any more and they have no one to blame but themselves. Greed. Greed will kill you eventually. And Ellison wants another right wing outlet, another puppet of this administration/wannabe regime, that kills reporting of inconvenient facts that run afoul of wannabe “dear leader”. Some things (the continued existence of the nation as a democratic republic rather than a banana republic) are more important than theatrical windows. News flash: the US HAS become a banana republic. But not under Trump. Who donated more to the ballroom!?! Very valid question. With the shameful mess Trump has made of the Kennedy Center, One would think that staying away from anything related to Trump would be sound advice. Ask anyone from Atlantic City in 1990 – 2009 Respectively. What mess? List how. round two has begun He doesn’t care, he’s looking for his tribute. He’s simply Pauly in the oval office. Hate to say, but agreed.