CNN-Trump Détente, Strike Force Majeure, Lagerfeld’s Met Legacy

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s latest reportage.

Today, we lead with Eriq Gardner’s indispensable guide to the Disney v. DeSantis legal fracas. Can superstar litigator Dan Petrocelli steer Iger’s case around a battalion of DeSantis-appointed Florida judges?

Then, below the fold: Tara Palmeri gets a pre-N.H. primary download from G.O.P. insider Matt Mowers. Lauren Sherman explains how Chanel leveraged Karl Lagerfeld for a posthumous Met Gala coup, before plotting out a succession scandal atop WSJ. Magazine. Eriq and Jonathan Handel powwow about the Hollywood writers’ strike. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Dylan Byers identify the riveting mediaworld narrative behind CNN’s looming Trump town hall.

ERIQ GARDNER

Disney has the upper hand, for now, but it’s rushing headfirst toward a 230-year-old legal obstacle that could force the company to try an even more extraordinary argument: DeSantis is stealing Disney World!

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TARA PALMERI

A candid conversation with Matt Mowers, the former Trump aide turned New Hampshire-and-D.C. political affairs maestro, on Trump’s odds, DeSantis’ stumbles, and Youngkinology.

LAUREN SHERMAN

It’s only fitting that this year’s costume exhibit would honor the designer who ushered in an era of transformative commercialism in fashion—precisely the sort of business intelligence that will be highlighted this evening.

LAUREN SHERMAN

The somewhat surprising torpedoing of Kristina O’Neill sets into motion a cavalcade of questions about what’s next for the once-trailblazing fashion magazine, starting with: Is this the beginning of the end?