Netflix Reportedly Greased the Skids for Its Warner Acquisition by Yukking It Up with Trump

The main subtext of the unpleasant announcement on Thursday that Netflix planned to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal worth $82.7 billion was that Silicon Valley is still grabbing all it can amid the ongoing looting of culture by Big Tech. That subtext may have overshadowed some additional, equally nauseating subtext that anonymous sources have confirmed to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw: that if it succeeds, it will likely be in part the product of a personal lobbying effort aimed at…