Max Tani

It was revealed this week that Jared Kushner is one of the individuals who is providing some money backing Paramount's bid for Warner Brothers Discovery.

Trump, crucially, when he was asked about this this week, said, I don't know.

We don't really know if that's true or not.

Trump is being overt about how he wants to be involved in this deal.

He literally said in an interview, I'll be involved in that decision.

And all of the parties who have some sort of a stake in this deal are acting that way as well and appealing to Trump.

Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, has made multiple trips to the White House, one in which he met with Trump and talked about this.

David and Larry Ellison have both appealed to Trump, arguing their side of this situation.

Both sides are staffing up with lobbyists and people who are from Trump's orbit, thinking that they can kind of get the inside track that way.

And Trump is repeatedly kind of weighing in here, saying that he is going to take a look and that he is concerned about some monopoly situations, at least in the case of Netflix.

Hilariously enough, that's the big question and the one that none of us really know the answer to.

You're right that the Ellisons have a longstanding good relationship with Trump, and that's something that they've made no secret of.

And Trump has spoken very highly of the Ellisons and said that he really liked the way that they were stewarding Paramount.

On the flip side, Trump has been reportedly has been very impressed by

by Ted Sarandos and seems to like him.

And, you know, crucially enough, Netflix doesn't also have a news division.

So there's not like this nightly or daily stream of content that's pissing off the administration and the White House.

And so I think that that also plays a role here.

Yeah, so last month I got this amazing tip that Donald Trump had been telling people that he was lobbying the Ellisons to make another installment of the movie Rush Hour.

The amount will be $50 million.