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Paramount, however, could face legal blowback if it shells out a huge amount to mollify Trump.

Of any attempt to mollify Trump, he said "good luck with that".

The answer is complicated, but that won’t necessarily mollify a California electorate that seems anxious, aggrieved and out of sorts — especially as regards the state’s current chief executive.

The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de Maupassant.

The first of these groups includes Bannon and may be the trickiest to mollify.