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.
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 224 pts · 181d
Look at that! The free market regulating itself without any intervention from the government! Just what the republicans love most, right?
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 181d
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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 7 pts · 181d
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.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 181d
Trump just reveals the man behind the curtain. Even more so now that he is dementia Don and has no filter.
diykeyboards@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 181d
Political hack with no talent or skills you say?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 181d
It's partly projection, but he also can't bear to see anyone who's not a white man running anything.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 181d
Absolutely nothing to do with her race, that's all I can say for sure! /s
Zephorah@discuss.online · 9 pts · 181d
It’s part of the cluster B personality disorder script. Cluster B is doing cluster B things.
DougHolland@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 181d
Gosh, another black woman Trump can't respect. What are the odds!
Itsamemario@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 180d
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.
amorangi@lemmy.nz · 21 pts · 180d
Reminds me a bit of that bit in the constitution that says you can't hold office if you are an insurrectionist.
Itsamemario@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 180d
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.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 179d
Didn’t he do that in first term too with NFL?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 46 pts · 181d
Well Netflix? Y'all wanted to Trump to be in charge of your business, this is what that looks like.
hector@lemmy.today · 43 pts · 181d
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.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 181d
What a fucking toddler.
He's such a baby that if the fat cunt could still 'get it up' he'd rape himself. CUNT.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 181d
Well, Netflix?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 181d
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."
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 180d
Christ, will someone please stand up to this asshole?
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 180d
literally everything trump says is projection
EsmereldaFritzmonster@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 181d
Seems like Trump feels incredibly threatened by someone with "no talent and no skills".
Maeve@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 181d
Susan Rice? Condaleeza's sister?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 181d
They're not related.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 181d
I don't know why I thought that.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
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.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
It'd be hilarious if they were to @ him when he's doing the inevitable whining afterwards:
Quiet Piggy
nul42@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 181d
This Rice? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/13/liberal-case-against-susan-rice
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 181d
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 181d
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.
It's only an "intervention" if NetFlix fires her instead of telling Trump to get f*cked.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Freedom of speech is now something Americans can only dream of.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 180d
Wow. I forgot people still pay for streaming
me downloading my first torrent