Walt Disney Co.’s Bob Iger would consider a role in the administration of incoming U.S. President Joe Biden, if the right position came along.
Bob Iger made the following comments in an interview on Bloomberg TV with the Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein:
Giving back in some fashion — serving our country in some fashion — is certainly something that I would consider seriously. But a lot of it would depend on what it is, what the opportunity is, and whether I thought it would be something that I would both be stimulated by and be good at.
However, Iger’s name hasn’t come up on any short list of Biden nominees. It’s unlikely he’ll leave Disney now before December 2021.
Iger considered a run for president of the U.S., but ultimately dropped those plans and went on to engineer Disney’s largest acquisition ever — the $71 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox Inc.’s entertainment assets — a deal the company completed last year.
“You don’t consider running for president without being a true idealist,” Iger said. “It takes a lot of idealism to generate the emotional energy and probably the physical energy, too, to do something like that, to even think that it’s possible. But at some point, realism sets in as well, and must set in.”
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