Netflix CEO responds to Trump’s name to take away Susan Rice from streaming big’s board | EUROtoday

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos shrugged off President Donald Trump’s name for him to take away Susan Rice from the corporate’s board final month as “not ideal” and added, “He does a lot of things on social media.”

Speaking to Politico upon his arrival in Brussels to fulfill with European regulators, Sarandos was requested in regards to the president’s February 21 Truth Social publish by which he wrote: “Netflix should fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences.

“She’s got no talent or skills – Purely a political hack! HER POWER IS GONE, AND WILL NEVER BE BACK. How much is she being paid, and for what???”

Rice was former President Barack Obama’s nationwide safety adviser and served on Netflix’s board between 2018 and 2020 earlier than leaving to work for Joe Biden’s administration. She then returned to the corporate after Trump gained the 2024 presidential election.

The president was writing in response to an X publish by far-right agitator Laura Loomer, who accused Rice of threatening a backlash in opposition to companies that made concessions to Trump’s agenda in an try to appease him.

“Does Netflix stand by their board member threatening half of the country with weaponized government and political retribution for choosing who they wanted to vote for as president?” Loomer requested.

“This is as anti-American as it gets, and Netflix is proving every day they are an anti-American, WOKE company.”

Sarandos advised Politico that he didn’t imagine Trump’s interjection had “crossed a line,” whereas making it clear that he had dismissed it out of hand.

“I think it’s really important to be able to separate noise from signal, and I think a lot of what happens in a world where we have a lot of noise,” he mentioned.

About his latest White House assembly with the president to debate Netflix’s aborted acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, which was in the end purchased by Paramount for $110 billion, the manager mentioned: “He makes statements sometimes that lead to the beliefs of things that do and sometimes that don’t materialize at all.

“But I found my conversations with him were 100 percent about the industry, protecting the industry. And I think it’s very healthy that the president of the United States speaks to business leaders about industries that are important to the economy.”

Sarandos mentioned he additionally mentioned Trump’s controversial tariff insurance policies with him.

“He has brought up tariffs for the movie and television industry many times,” the streaming boss mentioned.

“And I’ve hopefully talked to him the way out of them. I just said basically the same thing I said earlier. I think that incentive works much better.

“We’re seeing it in the U.S. things like the states compete with each other for production incentives and those states with good, healthy incentive programs attract a lot of production, and you’ve seen a lot of them move from California to Georgia to New Jersey, kind of looking for that what’s the best place to operate in, where you could put more on the screen.

“And I do think that having the incentives versus tariffs is much better.”