Trump Targets Comcast CEO Brian Roberts As MSNBC Plans New Lineup
There’s a lot of moving pieces at Comcast right now and a big wild card is its former NBC The Apprentice host Donald Trump.
As the NBCUniversal owner looks to spin off many of its cable channels — including MSNBC — into a separate untitled holding company (aka “SpinCo”), the President is stepping up attacks on the company, weeks after his Federal Communications Commission chair also targeted Comcast.
In a post on his social platform that mentioned Comcast CEO Brian Roberts by name twice, Trump disparaged the company, claiming: “The corrupt operation is nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democrat Party. They should be forced to pay vast sums of money for the damage they’ve done to our Country.”
Trump’s Truth Social post, in keeping with his running commentary on cable news hirings and firings, was ostensibly a dig about MSNBC canceling anchor Joy Reid’s show...
As the NBCUniversal owner looks to spin off many of its cable channels — including MSNBC — into a separate untitled holding company (aka “SpinCo”), the President is stepping up attacks on the company, weeks after his Federal Communications Commission chair also targeted Comcast.
In a post on his social platform that mentioned Comcast CEO Brian Roberts by name twice, Trump disparaged the company, claiming: “The corrupt operation is nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democrat Party. They should be forced to pay vast sums of money for the damage they’ve done to our Country.”
Trump’s Truth Social post, in keeping with his running commentary on cable news hirings and firings, was ostensibly a dig about MSNBC canceling anchor Joy Reid’s show...
- 2/24/2025
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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