U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmatter before signing an executive order at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2017.
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Former Chairman of Marvel Entertainment, Ike Perlmutter disneyHis spokesperson said he plans to make a significant donation to help former President Donald Trump run for president in 2024.
Perlmutter has yet to decide how much he plans to donate to Trump’s candidacy, but a spokesman for the businessman said on Thursday that the funding was “meaningful.”
Perlmatter and Trump have had a close relationship for more than 20 years. Perlmutter had previously donated $10.5 million to pro-Trump super PACs during the 2020 election, according to Federal Election Commission records. Perlmutter’s wife also donated $10.5 million to the same PAC, according to records.
Perlmutter also acted as an outside adviser to then-President Trump on issues related to the Department of Veterans Affairs. according to to ProPublica.
The former Marvel president has a net worth of just over $3 billion, making him one of the richest backers of the Trump campaign in 2020 so far.Wanted by many mega-donors who once backed the former president Alternative proposal Following pro-Trump riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and some lackluster results in the 2022 midterm elections.
A “Make America Great Again” super PAC allied with Trump is likely to receive funding from Perlmatter. SuperPAC joined the company this year with just over $54 million on hand and has spent more than $19 million on TV and digital advertising to date.
Trump currently leads the Republican preliminary inquiry. first About Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, his number two rival in Florida.
Perlmatter’s decision to back Trump over his Republican rivals could be another blow for DeSantis. Some of the governor’s donors are Concerned along with his campaign trajectory. Perlmutter donated more than $250,000 to state-level PACs, which he supported during his candidacy for gubernatorial elections in 2018 and 2022, according to campaign finance records. Records say his wife donated over $2 million to the same parent DeSantis PAC.
new york times report Perlmutter said he recently dined with fellow Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
After being kicked out of Disney earlier this year, Perlmutter Said The Wall Street Journal reported that he called DeSantis and agreed the company should stay out of politics. “Ron, you’re right. Disney has no right to get involved in politics,” Perlmutter told DeSantis by phone. Disney and DeSantis have been at odds since the entertainment giant last year criticized a Republican-backed bill that critics called “don’t say gay.”
Perlmutter told the Journal that Disney fired him as chairman of Marvel Entertainment because he was too aggressive in pushing the company to cut costs, and because he and newly-returned CEO Bob Iger. He said it was because of problems with senior allies.
A Disney representative told the WSJ that the company’s general counsel called Mr. Perlmutter to tell him that he had been fired because of the company’s extensive cost-cutting efforts. Perlmutter told the magazine he does not remember having received such a call.
Iger told CNBC on Thursday: was denied DeSantis’ campaign rhetoric against the company called the Republican presidential candidate’s attacks “ridiculous and inaccurate.”Eiger too Said Content spending and production for the Star Wars and Marvel franchises will recede.
