The proposed deal has also attracted criticism in the UK, with the opposition Conservative party calling it a "monumental failure of statecraft".

Enter Mariana, the subject of an extraordinary, monumental full-length portrait painted by the Spanish genius Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, loaned by Madrid’s Prado Museum to Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum.

"This historic investment is a monumental demonstration of confidence in America's future," the president-elect said.

Examining what the franchise could get in return for making a monumental move.

It comes on the heels of “Succession,” HBO’s monumentally successful drama that ended last year and was based not-so-loosely on the Murdoch family.