President-elect Donald Trump praised Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, the former chairman of Marvel Entertainment, at an event Monday night at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.
“The guy went from stone-cold broke to owning Disney,” Trump said of Perlmutter in front of his supporters at his private south Florida estate. “Then he got out of Disney because they went woke. He didn’t want woke Donald Duck, right?”
Disney laid Perlmutter off in 2023 after his division — which was separate from Marvel Studios — was absorbed into other units of the company due to cost-cutting
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