President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that Netflix will “pay the consequences” if it does not fire Susan Rice, who has served on the company’s board since 2018.
Trump’s comments came after Rice – a former ambassador to the United Nations who held diplomatic and advisory roles in the Obama and Biden administrations – appeared on the “Stay Tuned with Preet” podcast. hosted by Preet Bhara and predicted that companies that “kneel” to Trump will be “accounted for” when Democrats return to power.
“If these companies believe that the Democrats, when they come back to power, are going to play by the old rules, and […] say, “Oh, that’s okay. We’re going to forgive you for all the people you’ve fired, all the policies and principles you’ve broken, all the, you know, laws you’ve broken,’ I think they have something else,” Rice said.
In response, Trump posted on his social network Truth Social“Netflix should FIRE the racist, Trump trolled Susan Rice IMMEDIATELY or pay the consequences. She has no talent or skills – pure political hacking! HER POWER IS GONE AND WILL NEVER GET BACK. How much is she paid and for what???”
Trump’s post also included a screenshot of a post by far-right activist Laura Loomer criticizing Rice’s comments and claiming that “The Netflix-Warner Bros. merger. will lead to a streaming monopoly in which the Obamas will have a significant stake” because of the deal between Netflix and Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.
While Trump’s post did not list specific consequences, Warner Bros.’s massive takeover of Netflix would have to be approved by federal regulators. The streaming company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos reportedly met with Trump before the deal was announced, with Trump saying afterward that Netflix is a “big company […] but it’s a big market share, so we’ll have to see what happens.”
Last fall, Trump published a similar post demanding that Microsoft fire its president of global affairs Lisa Monaco, who was also a target of Loomer’s criticism. Monaco is still at Microsoft.
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