John Oliver on President Trump’s reaction to the power shifts happening at CBS News and Paramount: “He’s certainly happy about Ellison taking over Paramount and CBS. So this is more of that.” President Trump said Sunday that he thinks CBS has “great potential” after the Skydance–Paramount merger, which put David Ellison in charge of the media company. Ellison recently appointed Free Press founder Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News. “The reason why it is so alarming is there’s amazing work being done at CBS,” Oliver said about Weiss’ hiring. “They will continue to do that work until the worst case scenario, they are unable to do it anymore and people start getting fired or resigning. So up until that point, I’d want to defend very much the fact that great work is happening at CBS News. I hope it can continue to happen under these circumstances. I worry it’ll be different.” #johnoliver #donaldtrump #cbsnews #paramount #tv