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CBS Owner David Ellison Throwing a Party for His “Boss,” Donald Trump, Before the White House Correspondents Dinner

By Roger Friedman

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David Ellison is determined to kill CBS News.

He had already invited Trump stooges Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller to sit with him at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Now Ellison is throwing a party to celebrate the Trump Administration two days before the dinner.

Trump is sort of Ellison’s “boss,” as the son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison and dad are in business with Trump. Their goal is to make CBS News a lite version of Fox News.

So far, that’s not working. Ratings for their crappy version of CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil are in the toilet. Soon Tony will be gone, and unemployable by anyone except NewsNation or NewsMax.

For a news network to give a party for a sitting president, particularly Trump, is outrageous. There are so many conflicts of interest it’s ridiculous. But the new CBS News, which is headed by Ellison henchwoman Bari Weiss, doesn’t care about that.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall at that dinner. Who of the CBS News crew would show up for this thing? Just Dokoupil. LOL. I can’t imagine Gayle King mixing with this crowd, but you never know.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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