Paramount chief does damage control over ‘60 Minutes’ MTG interview that incurred Trump’s wrath

Paramount chair David Ellison has scrambled to do damage control in the wake of a ‘60 Minutes’ interview that sparked Donald Trump’s ire this week. - (AFP/Getty)

With Donald Trump publicly declaring that it’s “imperative that CNN be sold” as part of any takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, signaling he favors Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for the studio giant, Paramount chairman David Ellison has tried to temper the president’s boiling rage over another matter involving his company.

In the aftermath of Trump fuming that Paramount’s management was “NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP” following a 60 Minutes interview with Trump ally-turned-foe Marjorie Taylor Greene, the New York Post reported that Ellison and his father – ultrawealthy Oracle founder and close Trump pal Larry Ellison – have been “scrambling to do damage control with the White House.”