Analysis: What Disney is thinking as it faces a First Amendment fight with Trump

Let’s imagine what it’s like to be Josh D’Amaro right now.

You became the CEO of Disney about six weeks ago. You don’t want to be a political actor. But President Trump’s bullying is forcing you into a First Amendment fight you never asked for.

You know it’s not a coincidence that the FCC is challenging your ABC broadcast licenses just as Trump is demanding you fire Jimmy Kimmel over a joke.

You might not have liked the joke. You might have thought it was tasteless. But it doesn’t really matter now.

You know that your American employee base — which,

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