Trump says CNN should be sold as part of Warner Bros Discovery deal
Source: Reuters
December 10, 2025 4:58 PM EST Updated 11 mins ago
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the news network CNN should be sold as part of a deal for its parent company Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) or separately. CNN should be sold," Trump told reporters at the White House.
Trump has been a vocal critic of CNN, frequently branding the network as “fake news” and accusing it of biased coverage against him. He has described CNN as “one of the worst in the business” and mocked its ratings as “so low they’re not even counted or relevant anymore.”
Warner Bros is being courted by streaming giant Netflix (NFLX.O) and Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O) in separate deals with very different terms. The company accepted Netflix's offer last week, which prompted Paramount to launch a hostile bid on Monday.
Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros is for assets including HBO, but the deal excludes the company's CNN and other cable networks. Those cable assets, including CNN, TNT, and TBS, are expected to be spun off into a separate entity ahead of the merger. Paramount’s offer covers the entire Warner Bros company, and Paramount CEO David Ellison - son of billionaire and Trump ally Larry Ellison - has emphasized that his all‑cash bid offers a clearer path through regulators and would integrate CNN with CBS News.
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This is what I recall reading earlier - that CNN and related properties, were going to be spun off. So this Ellison thing of "measuring the drapes" regarding CNN seemed to come out of nowhere.
They are basically on a quest to completely eliminate CNN. I think many of us remember Ted Turner's baby when they had a presence around the world, with simply a reporter a sound/camera person, a car, and a sat phone. I remember watching CNN international in the small lounge on a little cruise boat that was chugging down the Nile River in Egypt in 1992. It has been essentially in a total self-destruct mode for over a decade now.
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