Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a warning for the White House: don’t get too comfortable with any of the Trump administration’s moves, because a “tsunami of anger” is set to be released by the American voting public.
Warren predicts that after the 2028 election, the administration’s actions to approve things like corporate mergers will be undone by furious Democrats.
And with it, she can save CNN from being influenced by conservative voices.
“After 2028, we’ll have new players in Washington, and everyone who’s engaged in this merger frenzy right now is aware of that,” Warren said. “The deals that are being cut today are occurring in the shadow of a coming political tsunami of anger against these giant corporations that think they can mow through one industry after another and run up prices and suck out profits and never be held accountable.”
“By 2028,” she said, “they may find out they have badly miscalculated.”
Warren’s anger has been targeted at the Justice Department’s approval of the $111 billion merger between Warner Bros Discovery, parent of CNN, and Paramount Skydance, which includes CBS News that is controlled by the conservative Ellison family.
Larry Ellison is a longtime Trump associate, and his son David, who took control of CBS News last year, installed Bari Weiss, a conservative-leaning commentator, as editor-in-chief, a move followed by mass firings and turmoil inside “60 Minutes.”
Saying goodbye to liberal media allies is not something Warren says she can stomach.
“There’s one ultimate decision-maker who decides what’s important and what’s not,” she said. “A bigger problem is that Ellison himself wants to inject a tilt into the news, and that means, where Americans turn for news, they can depend less and less on hearing independent, unbiased reports, and increasingly hearing a predigested version of the world that is comfortable for the new management of these news outfits.”
This is not a new threat from Warren.
In April, she co-sponsored Sen. Cory Booker’s failed CLEAN Mergers Act, legislation that is meant to stop any corporate merger valued over $10 billion approved during Trump’s second term… unless the companies proved to Congress that the deal didn’t harm competition.
“Donald Trump has turned the antitrust review process into a cesspool of corruption and American families are paying the price with higher costs and fewer choices,” Warren claimed. “This new bill is an important step to undo corrupt deals and protect Americans from unchecked monopolies.”
However, Warren admitted there’s little Democrats can do while Trump remains in office, and instead is eyeing a future where Democrats regains control of Washington, D.C.
“What we’ll be able to change in the law will be tough, with Donald Trump still sitting in the White House and able to veto anything he doesn’t like,” she admitted.