{"id":2267397,"date":"2026-02-05T02:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2267397"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:58:34","slug":"trump-says-he-wont-be-involved-in-justice-department-review-of-warner-bros-discovery-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trump-says-he-wont-be-involved-in-justice-department-review-of-warner-bros-discovery-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He \u2018Won\u2019t Be Involved\u2019 in Justice Department Review of Warner Bros. Discovery Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> says he will not be personally involved in the Justice Department\u2019s pending antitrust review of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s proposed acquisition of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0095173\/\">NBC News<\/a> anchor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4294826\/\">Tom Llamas<\/a> that he made the decision to leave the process to the Justice Department during a pre-recorded interview that will air Sunday in advance of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\">NBC<\/a> and Peacock\u2019s telecast of the Super Bowl. In December, days after Netflix and Wbd sealed an $83 billion merger agreement, Trump told reporters \u201cI\u2019ll be involved in that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this week, Trump told Llamas that he\u2019s changed his mind, even though he\u2019s been contacted by \u201cboth sides\u201d in the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t been involved,\u201d Trump told the \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor in a clip aired by NBC News as a preview for the full sit-down set to run before the big game on Sunday. The pre-Super&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump says he will not be personally involved in the Justice Department\u2019s pending antitrust review of Netflix\u2019s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Trump told NBC News anchor Tom Llamas that he made the decision to leave the process to the Justice Department during a pre-recorded interview that will air Sunday in advance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2267398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2267397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump-Says-He-\u2018Wont-Be-Involved-in-Justice-Department-Review.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267399,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267397\/revisions\/2267399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}