Noel King

There is a world in which the president of the United States is not remotely involved in business dealings such as these.

However, that is not the world in which we live.

Donald Trump is the president and he is involved here.

How exactly?

You know, the narrative around the Ellisons, you know, a month ago, two months ago was Donald Trump is friends with the Ellisons and he is going to allow them to get what they want here.

Ted Sarandos and Netflix do not seem to have accepted that as fact.

And so it's worth asking, Max, what...

What does Trump want here?

All right.

So President Trump clearly wants to be involved at 3,000 feet in the business of all of this.

But the president recently has also expressed some interest in being in the mix of what is getting made in Hollywood and elsewhere.

Tell me about Rush Hour 4, Max.

$50 million?

And who do you think you kidnapped, Chelsea Clinton?

Brett Ratner kind of got drummed out of Hollywood because he was credibly accused of sexual misconduct.

And this is one of those things that for the Trump administration feels like a bit of a hobby horse.

You find someone who's been accused of, you know, Me Too or racism or whatever, and you're like, the woke warriors went wild.

This never should have happened.

Do you see the attempted rehabilitation of Mr. Ratner as like part of a whole when we talk about the Trump administration's approach to culture?

What do we know about what kind of culture President Trump really likes?