Disney, Meta, Paramount settled lawsuits for ~$60M
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have all settled nuisance lawsuits with Trump for a combined ~$60 million, all directed to his presidential library.
Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: ICE Age
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Aug 8, 2026
Where this was said
Silencing the Press and the Academy
At 9:25 · chapter starts 9:17
Galloway widens the frame to show that the same authoritarian logic governing ICE is now being applied to the press and the academy. Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits, [1] — George Hahn "Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed t…" 09:17 with all funds routed to a presidential library he acidly describes as a place 'where truth will go to be laundered, not learned.' Newsrooms are folding or playing defense. The White House is now handpicking members of the press pool. Harvard — once America's greatest instrument of soft power — has become what Galloway calls a 'MAGA speed bag.' Autocrats, he notes, always come for universities because universities produce people who ask questions. Nearly 300 top researchers have applied for scientific asylum in France, [2] — George Hahn "In the 1930s and 40s, persecuted European scholars fled to America, bringing quantum theory, chemotherapy, and the atomic bomb with them. N…" 09:47 reversing the historic flow of the 1930s and 40s, when persecuted European scholars brought quantum theory, chemotherapy, and modern computing to American shores.
Media Surrender: $60 Million in Settlements, Zero Accountability
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
Brain Drain in Reverse: 300 Researchers Flee to France
In the 1930s and 40s, persecuted European scholars fled to America, bringing quantum theory, chemotherapy, and the atomic bomb with them. Now nearly 300 top U.S. researchers have applied for scientific asylum in France. The rivers of elite human capital are flowing in reverse.
Harvard as a MAGA Speed Bag
Autocrats always go for the universities because universities train people to ask questions. Harvard — once America's most powerful instrument of soft power — has become a punching bag for the White House, which is threatening to defund research, choke off international student visas, and criminalize campus dissent.
Nearly 300 researchers applied for scientific asylum in France
Nearly 300 top researchers have applied for scientific asylum in France as the Trump administration threatens to defund billions in university research.
Citizens of a Republic or Spectators to Its Collapse?
Trump has Congress kneeling, courts folding, and corporations cashing in. What remains is the public. Galloway closes with a stark binary: fight back with votes, lawsuits, and courage, or watch the republic dissolve from the sidelines. Democracy doesn't defend itself.
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