Barry Diller Rips “Plutocrats” Who Back Donald Trump But Refuse To Talk About His “Rotten” Character
While it’s no secret which presidential candidate Barry Diller supports, the media mogul reserves particular scorn for Donald Trump’s “plutocrat” supporters.
The former Paramount and Fox chief who now chairs Iac Corp. accused an array of top financial sector figures of embracing policies on Trump’s agenda even as they refuse to acknowledge Trump’s “rotten” character.
“I want Donald Trump pushed into the dust heap of history,” Diller said Friday at the Ft Business of Entertainment Summit. Expressing hope that Kamala Harris wins by “five to seven” percentage points, he added, “My hope is it will be a repudiation of him. I think that would be extraordinarily healthy. I think that’s the only healthy outcome.”
Almost worse than Trump himself, Diller added, are the “plutocrats” who back him even as they “refuse to talk about the character of the person.” (Diller did concede that he himself...
The former Paramount and Fox chief who now chairs Iac Corp. accused an array of top financial sector figures of embracing policies on Trump’s agenda even as they refuse to acknowledge Trump’s “rotten” character.
“I want Donald Trump pushed into the dust heap of history,” Diller said Friday at the Ft Business of Entertainment Summit. Expressing hope that Kamala Harris wins by “five to seven” percentage points, he added, “My hope is it will be a repudiation of him. I think that would be extraordinarily healthy. I think that’s the only healthy outcome.”
Almost worse than Trump himself, Diller added, are the “plutocrats” who back him even as they “refuse to talk about the character of the person.” (Diller did concede that he himself...
- 9/20/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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