Paramount, which owns CBS, is backed by the world’s second-richest man, Larry Ellison, and has touted longstanding ties to Trump. Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo/Postmedia files

United States President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns around Netflix Inc.’s planned US$72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. , noting that the market share of the combined entity may pose problems.

Trump’s comments, made as he arrived at the Kennedy Center for an event on Sunday, may spur concerns regulators will oppose the coupling of the world’s dominant streaming service with a Hollywood icon. The company faces a lengthy Justice Department review of a deal that would reshape the entertainment industry.

“Well, that’s got to go through a process, and we

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