“I would so love it if he were being blackmailed by Putin,” Mr. Diller says with a sly smile. After Mr. Diller mocked Trump’s campaign in 2015, Trump tweeted: “Little Barry Diller, who lost a fortune on Newsweek and Daily Beast, only writes badly about me. From Mailroom to #MeToo MaelstromI ask Mr. Diller what he thought of Sacha Baron Cohen’s joke at David Geffen’s recent birthday party at Jimmy Iovine’s house in Los Angeles that Mr. Geffen, Mr. Diller and the other starry billionaires and millionaires there represented “the world’s third-largest economy.”“It is a funny joke,” he says. “I see it in our companies, where the relationships between people are changing,” Mr. Diller says. “Our overlords are artificial intelligence.”At several points during our three-hour interview, Mr. Diller stops to ask me if this is any fun.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2018 10:00 UTC