Trump calls for removal of Susan Rice as streaming platform pursues takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Donald Trump has told Netflix to remove the Democratic foreign policy expert Susan Rice from its board or “face the consequences”, while the streaming platform is locked in an extraordinary corporate battle to take control of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).
In comments posted on his Truth Social platform, the US president described Rice – who served as national security adviser to Barack Obama and UN ambassador and White House adviser under Joe Biden – as a “political hack” and accused her of having “no talent or skills”.
Trump’s comments herald a fresh intervention in the takeover battle between Netflix and Paramount Skydance for the studios and streaming businesses of WBD only weeks after promising not to get involved.
18 US Code 227 interfering with or threatening a private entity’s employment decisions as a politician. The punishment is being barred from holding federal office.
Reminds me a bit of that bit in the constitution that says you can’t hold office if you are an insurrectionist.
Not even Just that, it states that if you give “aid or comfort” to insurrectionists or “rebels” you are barred from holding office. When he was campaigning he promised to pardon the insurrectionists, that was giving them “comfort”. When he “won” he followed through on that promise, that was giving “aid”. According to the US Constitution and federal law, he is ineligible to be president right now. There are other laws he broke that also barred him from being reelected, well before the campaigning started, that he was never charged with violating, that aren’t hard to prove.
Christ, will someone please stand up to this asshole?
Look at that! The free market regulating itself without any intervention from the government! Just what the republicans love most, right?
The past few months have really made it clear just how much bigotry is literally the only thing that the Republican base cares about. States rights? Gun rights? Free trade? Stopping interventionism? “Protecting children?” Turns out none of that actually matters to Republican voters after all when they can beat up and murder minorities or have other people do that on their behalf. I must admit I have been shocked at just how much of what they claimed were long held beliefs they have been willing to give up to fuck over other people they see as lesser.
I’m not shocked at all, the GOP have been pretty consistent on policy since Reagan.
Peoples outlooks might have changed since then, but the party has been shit for a long time.
Trump just reveals the man behind the curtain. Even more so now that he is dementia Don and has no filter.
Gosh, another black woman Trump can’t respect. What are the odds!
What a fucking toddler.
He’s such a baby that if the fat cunt could still ‘get it up’ he’d rape himself. CUNT.
Political hack with no talent or skills you say?
It’s partly projection, but he also can’t bear to see anyone who’s not a white man running anything.
Absolutely nothing to do with her race, that’s all I can say for sure! /s
It’s part of the cluster B personality disorder script. Cluster B is doing cluster B things.
Netflix should file a personal lawsuit against the president. Then file one against Paramount for putting him up to it, as the personal one against the president would probably get thrown out even though you could argue he’s acting in his personal capacity, which he is.
Well Netflix? Y’all wanted to Trump to be in charge of your business, this is what that looks like.
Remove her. Make the deal. Then reinstate her.
Not that I like this deal, but it’s what they should do if the deal gonna go through anyway.
It’d be hilarious if they were to @ him when he’s doing the inevitable whining afterwards:
Quiet Piggy
Trump described her “as a “political hack” and accused her of having “no talent or skills”.”
Wow, what case of “It takes one to know one.”
literally everything trump says is projection
Well, Netflix?
Seems like Trump feels incredibly threatened by someone with “no talent and no skills”.
Freedom of speech is now something Americans can only dream of.
Susan Rice? Condaleeza’s sister?
They’re not related.
I don’t know why I thought that.
