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TELL CONGRESS: Trump allies are on the verge of taking over American media. Paramount CEO David Ellison, who already controls CBS, put together a bid with Saudi backing to take over Warner Brothers and CNN. Trump’s FCC chair supports the merger. Sign the petition: Urge Congress to block Trump’s dream media takeover — stop the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger!

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Paramount CEO (and major Trump ally) David Ellison made a $111 billion offer to take over Warner Brothers with funding support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.^1,2

Trumpworld helped scuttle a Netflix deal with Warner Brothers and put its backing behind Paramount’s bid.³ Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr said this industry-defining mega-merger would need no more than “minimal” FCC attention and should get approved “pretty quickly.”⁴ Carr is abdicating his responsibility to scrutinize the deal, which violates antitrust laws and poses serious risks to our democracy.

Ellison, who already controls CBS, told Trump that he’d bring sweeping, pro-Trump changes to CNN, a Warner Brothers asset.⁵ Congress must stop this dangerous, Trump-serving mega-merger!

Sign the petition: Block the Paramount-Warner Brothers deal! Trump is trying to take even greater control over the news.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren raised the alarm when news broke of the Paramount deal. “A Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger is an antitrust disaster,” she said. “A handful of Trump-aligned billionaires are trying to seize control of what you watch and charge you whatever price they want.”⁶

Paramount’s CBS has already installed unqualified right-wing figures at the top of its news properties. Now, the same thing could happen at CNN.

Pro-Trump allies are mounting a media takeover to grab even more power for the administration’s far-right propaganda machine. Congress must step in as the Trump admin tries to push this deal through.

Sign the petition: Block the Paramount-Warner Brothers mega-merger.

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the Demand Progress team

Sources:

1. Reuters, "Kushner role in bid for Warner Bros raises ethical questions, experts say,” December 9, 2025.
2. Deadline, "Paramount Unveils Jared Kushner, Middle East Sovereign Funds As Backers Of Now Hostile WBD Bid; China’s Tencent Out,” December 8, 2025.
3. NBC News, "Trump says Netflix-Warner Bros. deal could be a 'problem' and he will be involved in approval,” December 7, 2025.
4. CNBC, "FCC chief tells CNBC WBD-Paramount merger deal is ‘cleaner’ than Netflix’s, will be approved ‘quickly’,” March 3, 2026.
5. The Wall Street Journal, "Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump,” December 8, 2025.
6. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Press Release, "Warren on Paramount Winning Warner Bros. Bidding War,” February 26, 2026.

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