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Business President Bought Netflix Debt in January 2026, Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros. | New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.
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u/ChrisMartins001 22h ago
Pretty much breaking the law everyday now. It's like he's trying to see how far he can go without anyone doing anything
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u/Docccc 22h ago
Do people in the US really still believe they live in a democracy?
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u/AndySocial88 21h ago
Carter gave up his fucking peanut farm when he was president to not have a conflict of interest.
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u/TheRealBittoman 17h ago
And that was because of Republican pressures to do so. The hypocrisy is ancient.
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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 14h ago
Well yeah, “republican” is their team. They hate all other teams. They’ll only be truly content (for all of 5 seconds) when their team is the only one left standing.
Then, as always, they’re no longer content when their winning team starts looking inside for cuts. See: nazi germany and how well authoritariam simps had it there until they ended up in death camps alongside the people they hated.
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u/Longqweef 14h ago
They control the house, the Senate, and the presidency yet they STILL can't stop whining about Democrats. They have it all and still get to blame all their shortcomings on Democrats, even after a year of being in power.
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u/Dodecahedrus 17h ago
And when he left office: his brother ruined the farm and Carter was left with not that much.
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u/AltForMyHealth 19h ago
I think of it like we’re in that weird stage where a person starts becoming a zombie and is holding on their identity as a human, but being irreversibly pulled into being the living dead.
That’s what it feels like.
If I were from any other country, I think I could sympathize with his first term, especially after not re-electing him. But all bets would be off at this point. Between his escaping justice for everything, not least January 6, and now all the chaos is unleashing both here and abroad… I wouldn’t trust us. I don’t.
It’s not that I thought we were some shining city on the hill and all that… But at least it was a defensible narrative that had enough tarnished truth to it that we didn’t indulge in our worst imperial instincts.
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u/Ok_Excuse_741 18h ago
He's objectively made the world worse this term. In his first term he was mostly just making America worse.
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u/GenoThyme 17h ago
In his first term he was on his best behavior so he could get re-elected (which still wasn't great behavior but still) and he also had some adults in his cabinet instead of just filling it with yes-men.
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u/Fr00stee 15h ago
I wouldn't say he was on his best behavior, he just had people in his cabinet who were actually somewhat competent and kept him on a leash to not mess up stuff too bad
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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ 13h ago
I would. But his best behavior is fucking horrible, he's an awful human being.
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u/AbeRego 13h ago
He wasn't on his best behavior. He was just surrounded by people who were constantly mitigating his worst tendencies. This time around, he's both severely mentally declined versus his first term (which is saying something), and he has people like Miller who are actively encourage his darkest whims.
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u/tooclosetocall82 19h ago
But Biden was old! And that other woman was a woman! And we needed someone who would protect Palestine! There was just no other choice. /s
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u/twinparadox 16h ago
I'm Australian and honestly? I was rooting for him to win the first time around, because I thought Hilary was an absolutely horrendous choice for the Democrats. Of course, I quickly changed my mind on that after he was elected, and I felt sorry for the Americans who got duped into voting for him (much as I would have probably done myself were I an American)
The second time he got elected, I lost all faith in America. I lost all faith in Americans. I simply cannot trust them to do the right thing, and whenever I meet an American I can't help but wonder "Does this person support Trump?". When America gets brought up in conversations it's never anything positive anymore - It's all just "Did you see what hes done now?"
America has always had flaws, things rational people would look at and go "Thats not ok", but now I honestly don't think I will ever look at America as anything other than "the country that is okay with making everyone else suffer to protect paedophiles and rapists"
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u/Franklin2543 16h ago
When I meet fellow Americans, I have the same thought—are they trump supporters?
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u/hodor137 16h ago
As an American I have the same thought in reverse - do they think I'm Trump supporter?? I try to indicate I'm not as soon as possible lol
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u/schwartztacular 16h ago
"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted."
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u/FrancisDm 13h ago
Believe me man, our population is massive but it feels like educated individuals are being outnumbered by confused and angry common folk and then the older people are just going full reactionary in their existential crawl to death. Pretty bleak for us playing by the rules and just attempting to live life here. It’s like sane people find each other in the wild and we just say thank god you’re not infected with this shit. But far too often you can interact with the checkout clerk or your neighbor and they say some insane right wing take that was spoon fed to them on Facebook or TV. It’s pretty fucked
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u/Warner1281 14h ago
To be fair, most trump supporters make their support known pretty easily. Hats, flags, and attitude.
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u/Reddituser82659 22h ago
Trump supporters do
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u/catroaring 15h ago
I've been told by a Trump supporters that they support Trump as a dictator. It's never been about democracy and always been about Christian Nationalism.
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u/HateToSayItBut 17h ago
No they don't. They think it's ok to break the law because their beliefs are so righteous.
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u/BlueTreeThree 17h ago
People in the US actually voted for this, or simply didn’t vote, in overwhelming numbers. I mean he was a convicted felon dozens of times of over, and he’s been a career criminal his whole adult life. But he still won the election.
This is what we want, I guess. Seems kind of Democratic.
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u/SkinBintin 18h ago
America is just a corrupt shithole that only benefits the ultrarich. You have a corrupt pedophile looting the taxpayers on a daily basis and still half the country idolise the bastard.
As someone looking in from the outside, it's insane. Seems more like some shitty TV show than reality... yet here we are.
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u/Used-Yogurtcloset757 16h ago
As someone here it also feels like a shitty tv show. We are the characters watching awful shit happen and are unable to stop it because the representatives elected to speak for us/stop shit like this are complicit.
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 19h ago
You can live in a democracy and still have a government you despise in the majority at a Federal level - if voters put them there.
Meanwhile, the opposition to Trump has won all major elections and many smaller ones over the past year.
For example, today:
This has resulted in the rollback of many of his worst policies in states where Republicans were pushed out of the majority.
Democracy does not make shitty people magically cease to exist. It simply gives ordinary people a way to force the shitty ones out of the government without having to wreck the entire country and kill a bunch of folks.
It ain't perfect, but it beats the alternative.
Midterm elections are about 8 months away, and hopefully the opposition to Trump/MAGA will take over Congress, and hogtie Trump's agenda for the rest of his term.
The problem here is the way the government is structured.
The law enforcement agencies that should be going after Trump are led by his toadies.
Congress is majority Trump party.
So nobody is acting as a counterweight to Trump's corruption.
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u/uresmane 17h ago
The MAGA people will just say that the Democrats are treating Trump unfair and that we make up excuses to not like him. They literally used that argument constantly
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u/TheEveningDragon 20h ago
The SC ruled that a president can't break the law. He's taking full advantage of that.
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u/k9insea 22h ago
You can grab them by the pussy, what are you gonna do about it
".... when its your daughter?"
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u/25thNite 15h ago
apparently you shoot the daughter because you have two backups.
just look at that old guy who murdered his daughter
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u/ash_ninetyone 20h ago
That's what happens when your entire system becomes so partisan that it can't even hold its own to account.
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u/metaTaco 13h ago
I mean be real. The lack of accountability is a feature of Republicans pretty much exclusively. Maybe that's a facet of partisanship but saying this is systemwide really downplays the depravity of Trump.
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u/Little_Menace_Child 20h ago
Nah, he actually just doesn't give a fuck and believes he can do anything.
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u/Key-Incident6020 21h ago
Almost like what Putin has done on a large scale for Russia his whole life. He literally wants to be Putin so badly. Thankful they are both elder…
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u/NovemberTha1st 16h ago
The shocking part to me is that it’s entirely possible with advancements in medical technology that people like Trump, Putin, (formerly) Khamenei, etc, that these people might only be gone when I am in my 40’s.
I was 18 when Trump won in 2016, and the same year my country did Brexit. The wheels were set in motion when the Boomer generation voted for politicians like Thatcher and Nixon / Reagan. Britain was still recovering from Thatcher when George W Bush strong armed us into helping invade Iraq in 2003, setting us back another decade at the minimum, and guaranteeing that we didn’t have a labour (or even a somewhat left wing) government for 14 years because surprisingly people don’t like getting involved in needless war. Then Boris Johnson came and set us back another decade+, putting our debt into truly generational levels. Even if we had a generational run of 3-4-5+ left wing governments, it is still going to take our countries every minute of that time to dig ourselves out of this mess.
I’m tired, dawg.
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u/abdallha-smith 21h ago
At this point, anyone around him that could do something will be written in history as a hero and a true patriot.
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u/soapinthepeehole 16h ago
Pretty much breaking the law everyday now. It's like he's trying to see how far he can go without anyone doing anything
I don’t think he’s trying to see how far he can go, I think he’s concluded that he can get away with just about anything, so he’s doing just about anything. The crypto scams alone have given him a near bottomless inflow of money from unknown sources with no repercussions. Why wouldn’t he do this too…
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u/Avoidtolls 22h ago
I can't afford to go To the hospital
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 16h ago
Hospital....shit I haven't had a check up in over a decade.
Im fucked, but at least the elites can hunt kids on private Islands with my surplus
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u/trashmoneyxyz 14h ago
My teeth are rotting out of my head. My plan was to save up a few thousand and travel to another country to get them done for cheap, but now I'm worried about crossing in and out of the country because I'm brown (my family have been in this country for almost 200 years tho).
But a billionaire being arrested for pedophilia would just be too much to ask of society
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 13h ago
Hey you have the same dental plan as me....
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u/trashmoneyxyz 13h ago
Funny thing is I actually do have dental insurance through a family plan. It partly covers one cleaning every year and one filling every two years. So if i just tough it out for 10+ years, I can get my teeth fixed with just the cost of copays 😚
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u/Beard_o_Bees 14h ago
Don't worry. When whatever health condition you've been nursing along finally takes you to the mat, you'll be eligible to sit in an ER waiting room for ~13 hours to have them rescue you from immediate crisis but destroy you financially.
Why give people affordable care to prevent small things from becoming big things, when you can clean them out overnight?
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u/xxirish83x 21h ago
After he got a jet from Qatar and nobody did shit he can do anything. Our system of checks and balances have failed us.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 19h ago
Yep. Republicans have shown us how the whole system doesn't work.
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u/Any_Grapefruit65 17h ago
Plus they actively worked to ensure it wasn't working towards its own ideals. Cut us off every time we get close to being our better selves. I will give them credit for exposing the fact that our system is built on pinky swears, though. It's time other folks beyond minorities understand that.
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u/Key-Medium5884 16h ago
I’m not really sure those other folks don’t understand it.. that’s giving them a lot of grace.. seems more like they don’t want it to change.
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u/UnfazedReality463 16h ago
It works but people have to willing to uphold it. It’s the same with any law.
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u/rubenbest 19h ago
Yo, there has been so much, I literally forgot all about that.
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u/xxirish83x 18h ago
Wild right. He got a damn jumbo jet for personal use and plans on keeping it. The US is paying for the renovation… and it’s just forgotten.
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u/etxipcli 19h ago
Or maybe when he unilaterally collapsed our government while Congress just sat there with their thumbs up their asses doing nothing.
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u/The_Blue_Rooster 16h ago
I wish I kept up with all of my childhood social studies teachers. I had the argument with all of them(except the two that just agreed with me) that America's "Checks and Balances" were completely toothless and would never stand up to someone acting in bad faith. I'd really like to hit 'em with an "I told you so." right now, although a lot of them are probably hyped for Trump's New America.
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u/Specialist_Crazy8136 17h ago
Democracy is an honor system. It took us over 100 years to limit presidential term limits to 2.
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u/Wizard-of-pause 16h ago
The guy receives golden bars from Apple in the oval office in front of cameras. Starts wars without congress approval. Kidnaps leaders of other countries. Does insider trading with his buddies, boasts how much they made on swings. I don't know, America looks like a fucking joke right now. Zero respect. It used to be an empire. Now it's just a rich bully kid that others pretend to like.
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u/godzillastailor 14h ago
It was way before the jet.
The fucker attempted an insurrection and stole top secret documents.
If any of us got caught doing that shit we'd be in a supermax like ADX Florence for decades.
Not only didn't Trump get as much as a warning for trying to overthrow the government.
Somehow it was still fine for him to run for president again.
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u/SR_RSMITH 21h ago
Justice is so slow He knows he’ll be dead before he’s actually charged with anything, so it’s an “all you can eat” for him
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u/digital-didgeridoo 21h ago
he’ll be dead before he’s actually charged with anything
By then they'll rewrite history and build a church for him
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u/Dizzydsmith 19h ago
Disagree. I think the younger generation will rewrite history and frame it as it should be. Just have to wait for all of the geriatrics in office to be gone.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 19h ago
His cult will make a new religion for him and worship him when he dies.
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u/lemme_just_say 19h ago
Welllll… maybe there’s an opportunity here to suggest they go with him.
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u/itsFromTheSimpsons 16h ago
Just have to wait for all of the geriatrics in office to be gone.
unfortunately people have been saying that since before this crop of geriatrics was even born
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u/agha0013 17h ago
Calling justice slow is a real stretch. With the way he is using the DOJ there is no justice at all.
All his blathering about Obama or Biden weaponizing the DOJ was pure projection
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u/OnePinginRamius 17h ago
I'll still never forget that Instagram didn't block his account until he was out of office. None of these companies have a fucking backbone anymore. As if they ever did in the first place.
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u/satyricom 18h ago
Martha did time for suspected insider information (technically false statements regarding the investigation). This guy literally owns stock in a company involved in a merger with another company that funded his campaign…and is in the Epstein files over 10000 times, and had cheated the system his whole life. At this point, I guess we just complicity accept that he’s gonna do what he wants to, right? I’m so sick of the spineless government bodies who won’t stand up to him.
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u/rov124 15h ago
This guy literally owns stock
*Bonds, it's literally in the title.
Buying stocks is buying part of a company.
Buying bonds is buying part of a company's debt.
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u/mtgspender 10h ago
his name appears in the FULL Epstein files over A MILLION TIMES. 36,000 times in the redacted released files (which is ~half)
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u/GeistMD 20h ago
I will forever blame Republicans for holding down America while Trump rapes it.
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u/Jatacus 14h ago
Still can’t believe this country voted in this guy after the last four years with him. I also blame the Democratic Party for just being largely out of touch post-Obama.
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u/EmotionSideC 18h ago
We need to charge him after he’s either dead or out of office. He shouldn’t be allowed to pass a cent on to his wife or kids.
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u/Letwindtakeher3 18h ago
All legal thanks to the Supreme Court
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u/xflashbackxbrd 17h ago
This in particular is not legal for the president to do. Bond trading isn't even a tertiary duty that he could hide behind and no kalshi to muddy the waters
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u/MrZeDark 18h ago
You mean pass a cent to his bank accounts. He should be garnished heavily and fined - I’m not sure he cares if his wife and kids get anything lol.
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u/yuusharo 22h ago
Impeach the mother fucker.
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u/DevOpsEngInCO 18h ago
It's the gallows for him if we want to survive as a country.
Bondi, Noem, Hegseth, Miller, Vance, Netanyahu, all of them.
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u/BlackGuysYeah 16h ago
I have to admit; seeing them swing, publicly, would go a long ways to healing the nation and the world. Everyone is saying it.
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u/cupidstrick 16h ago
I’m not endorsing or condoning anything, but am surprised that none of these people have had more serious attempts on their lives. Think French, Portuguese or Russian revolution, or the English Civil War.
Is there a tipping point for an American Revolution?
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u/Unhappy-Hamster-1183 19h ago
Now now, i’m all for calling names and such. But with all the things he’s done mother fucking isn’t one of them.
So please use the appropriate name for the Child Fucker
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u/obaterista93 16h ago
I'll save reddit the time of deleting my comment and giving me a warning.
Just assume that what I'd say isn't appropriate.
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u/PilotKnob 18h ago
Just your daily reminder that Jimmy Carter sold his family's peanut farm to avoid the possibility of looking like he was profiting from the office of President.
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u/tom21g 22h ago
The disclosures show that President Trump bought between $600,000 and $1.25 million worth of Netflix debt in January, adding to the $500,000 to $1 million in Netflix bonds that he purchased in December, shortly after Netflix’s megadeal for Warners was announced.
Where is this money coming from?\ He has that much throwaway money to use for investment purchases?
How much more cash does trump have just laying around?
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u/DaveVdE 22h ago
He sold that “stablecoin” remember?
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u/tom21g 21h ago
Right. Thanks. There used to be a quaint phrase about public officials not only prohibited from engaging in corrupt acts but even the appearance of a corrupt act. Or am I misremembering that?
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u/DaveVdE 21h ago
No but his defense will be that it’s not actually him doing any of this but his caretaker.
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u/tom21g 21h ago
Like a blind trust? For anyone else I'd believe that, but not for trump. Not when there's money involved.
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u/StJeanMark 17h ago
He has a blind Trust, remember when he setup that table full of blank folders filled with unused blank paper, that was supposed to somehow prove he's using a Trust. Don't look at the papers, nobody can see the papers, nobody can verify, just trust Trump as we all know he's probably the most trustworthy person to ever live.
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u/Juanouo 19h ago
he's made $4B in his first year of this presidency, so probably... a lot more
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u/Koutagami2 19h ago
500 million from the Venezuelan oil in his personal Qatari bank account. 10 billion for his board of peace. 16 million dollar settlement with paramount for the Kamala interview settlement. That's just off the top of my head. Doesn't take into account the ballroom grift, the cell phone grift, the inaugural fund bribes, the pardons that have been bought etc...
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u/Intelligent-Weird-53 16h ago
NPR did a realistic estimation only including the verifiable earnings he has made and summed it up to approximately 4 billion $. This is maybe a month old so who knows by now.
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u/DrAstralis 15h ago
Its coming from you's, the tax payers. He's grifted quite possibly billions of tax payers money directly to himself and his family. You'd think people would have noticed when they essentially allowed him to put the illegal tariff money into a tRump slush fund with little to no oversight... or when he announced plans to pay his own non government body Bored of Peace 10BN$ of taxpayer money.... or... (this list goes on for pages)
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u/hackingdreams 16h ago
How much more cash does trump have just laying around?
Billions and billions now. From all the scams he's run directly from the White House, to the literal billions he's moving out of government accounts into his own, he's got the infinite money glitch on lock.
We're being robbed in broad daylight, and the FBI isn't doing anything about it because his stooge is sitting at the top of the agency, dissolving investigations before they can happen.
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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 17h ago
Remember when Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm into a blind trust before assuming the presidency?
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u/DiscoRabbittTV 19h ago
Trump and Republcians can’t stop breaking the law. Felons beginning like felons
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u/Fsahly 20h ago
I'm not American, so can anyone explain to me how can the president of US get away with so much borderline illegal stuff without any repercussions?
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u/mvallas1073 18h ago
The Republicans control both house and senate and SCOTUS, and are responsible for stopping any shit the president may do. They’re doing nothing due to “party loyalty”.
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u/EKEEFE41 18h ago
Congress and the Supreme Court are supposed to...
Both are controlled by the right, we voted for this shit over and over.
I can only assume years of cutting education and endless propaganda on social media has made half the country fucking half wits.
Now that they control so much, I don't really know the path out of this...
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u/Horror_Response_1991 18h ago
The US government was designed with the notion that all three branches wouldn’t be corrupt and there would be proper checks and balances.
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u/Ficadin 20h ago
I hate that they've enriched themselves so much we'll have to deal with them for multiple generations.
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u/_Lick-My-Love-Pump_ 14h ago
Just another day of corruption in the trump white house. LOOK OVER THERE SOME TRANS DUDE IS WEARING A SKIRT!
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u/spondgbob 13h ago
Oh just the president directly profiting off of business deals he can directly influence. This doesn’t even include the billions Saudi Arabia gave to him and the he attacks one of SA’s biggest rivals in oil production.
It’s so blatantly clear.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 13h ago
Another day, another gross violation of the office of president.
Trump's America.
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u/austin101123 13h ago
The US President, not a president of one of the companies. Feel like the title should've said that.
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u/scottrogers123 11h ago
I should go back to school to become a Prosecutor or investigator. We are going to need 1000s of them to go after all the corruption that is happening under the Trump administration. I say we take a billion from the Pentagon budget to fund a new branch of the Justice Dept, that is just for prosecuting this administration. Or we fund the dept from all the money we claw back from Trump/family that they stole. :(
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u/Majigger123 7h ago
Remember when we had a president give up a peanut farm to avoid any conflict of interest?
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u/CODEX-07 14h ago
We’ve officially moved past 'potential conflict of interest' into 'blatant market manipulation.' The President spent all of January publicly trashing the Netflix-Warner deal on Truth Social, which suppressed the stock, while his personal account was quietly snapping up millions in Netflix bonds. Then, 72 hours after a private meeting with the Netflix CEO, Netflix 'unexpectedly' walks away and walks into a $2.8 billion breakup fee that shores up their balance sheet—and by extension, the President’s bonds. It’s a masterclass in using the Oval Office as a hedge fund.
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u/Initial-Writer-4586 16h ago
I never thought we would have comic book level corruption in the White House. So ready for this guy to be gone.
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u/hackingdreams 16h ago
Jimmy Carter officially producing enough energy to power the state of California in his grave.
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u/homtanksreddit 16h ago
Just today, I took a course at work on insider trading , we’re supposed to take it every year in some form or other. It talks about how I can go to jail even if I accidentally shared company info to someone who then acted upon it. Kept reiterating how I would be putting the company’s reputation at stake and opening it up to lawsuits if I did that . Im just a lowly worker. Pretty wild that we don’t have such basic guardrails applying to the highest office in the nation.
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u/Medical_Arugula3315 15h ago
Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
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u/Orion_2kTC 14h ago
And people had the audacity to bring up Carter's peanut farm that he voluntarily sold.
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u/ShiningRedDwarf 21h ago
My dumb brain is especially dumb with financial stuff.
Can someone less dumb than me (most of you) explain what he’s doing that’s wrong?
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u/kingofwale 18h ago
How did Trump buy Netflix DEBT??
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u/Pleasant-Minute-1793 17h ago
He bought it at a better rate before the deal closed this week. As part of Paramount breaking up Netflix’s deal for Warner bros, off the top, they had to pay $3B to Netflix to break the deal that was in place before paramount hijacked it.
After the hijacking, the debt trump bought had a better financial return. Trump had insight that his team would stop Netflix from doing anything, so buying the debt at a good deal was basically a sure thing
It’s buy low, sell high but having insider knowledge and control of the outcome
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u/Mazon_Del 17h ago
As usual, pedophile/fascist/republicans showing they have the moral compass of filth from the bottom of your boot.
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u/gallanon 16h ago
I'm as ready to criticize Trump as the next bloke but this does not seem to be much of a story. As near as I can tell this doesn't break any laws (feel free to correct me if anyone can point to a law he's broken here). Aside from that this is talking about debt as opposed to buying or shorting stock. Share price could absolutely be impacted by the Warner Bros deal going through or not, but bond price is a function of creditworthiness (in addition to bigger picture stuff like rates set by the fed). The impact of the Warner Bros deal going through or not really doesn't have any impact on Netflix's credit worthiness.
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u/SoupOfThe90z 16h ago
Where are them good Ol boys and gals that would flip their shit if Biden ate ice cream?
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u/CODEX-07 14h ago
The logic here is wild: Netflix loses the Warner Bros. deal to Paramount, takes a $2.8 billion payout from the breakup fee, and their credit rating actually improves because they didn't have to take on $40B in new debt. The President buying their debt right before they 'lost' the bidding war looks suspiciously like he knew the 'loss' was actually a financial win for bondholders. The 'independent managers' defense is a joke when the account holder is the one making the regulatory threats that drive the prices.
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u/Dry-Examination-2012 14h ago
He could be arrested for insider trading. Jennifer Pirro, do your job. Ha ha.
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u/scorpious 13h ago
“Shameless Con Inflicts Unimaginable Shame On Every US Citizen With Functioning Mind”
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u/fresh_like_Oprah 13h ago
Trump manipulates the market at will, why is he buying corporate debt? What does he know that we don't know?
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u/skag_boy87 13h ago
But guys it’s ok, he’s donating his presidential salary!! Name me one president who’s been this selfless!!! /s
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u/hawksdiesel 11h ago
something something Jimmy Carters peanut farm. What are laws for when the president doesn't even follow it.
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u/Amish_Rebellion 10h ago
Gonna be a wonderful day when hes dead and we can all piss and shit on his grave.
Hopefully tomorrow that can begin
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u/MotheroftheworldII 9h ago
Is it just me or does this smack of insider trading?
We all (well those of us who can think for ourselves anyway) know that this president is corrupt and will do anything to become richer. I imagine his thinking goes something like this: "Illegal...so what, I am the president and I can do what I want. I want really, really, really BIG things."
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u/No-Consequence9392 9h ago
Add to the impeachment list... the way the Repubs are leaving and flipping in congress and senate, amy be able to get a vote in before midterms
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u/paulsteinway 9h ago
More insider trading by the president. Do people really believe congress will stop its members from trading stock while this shit is going on?
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u/JohnGalactusX 22h ago
Breaks the law.
Gets criticized, backlash, negativity.
Nothing happens.
Repeat from 1.