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BumRushDaShow

(160,717 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:37 AM 23 hrs ago

Trump demands Microsoft oust global affairs chief over Biden-era ties

Source: Axios

Updated 12 hours ago


President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.

Why it matters: Trump's push for one of the world's largest companies to oust one of its top executives is the latest example of the administration's broad efforts to exert more active oversight of corporate America.

What they're saying: "It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco," Trump said in a Truth Social post, calling her "Corrupt and Totally Trump Deranged."

  • Trump described her as a "menace to U.S. National Security," citing Microsoft's government contracts.
  • He withdrew her security clearances last March in the same order where he also withdrew clearances for former president Biden and Hillary Clinton, among others.


  • The intrigue: Far-right activist Laura Loomer claimed credit for the push to oust Monaco in a post on X, saying she alerted Trump to Monaco's role.

  • Loomer tagged Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in her post, asking "[A]re you going to comply? Or continue to be two faced?"


  • Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/trump-microsoft-lisa-monaco
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    Champp

    (2,132 posts)
    2. Republicans really are the party of BIG GOVERNMENT
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:50 AM
    23 hrs ago

    That's another thing the Republicans have been lying about for decades. They have their big greedy grubby noses in everything.

    PatSeg

    (51,017 posts)
    13. Yeah, they're fine with big government
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:31 PM
    17 hrs ago

    as long as it is THEIR big government. When Democrats are in power, they put on their small government hats and suddenly become fiscally responsible.

    Bengus81

    (9,449 posts)
    3. Stop calling us Nazi's...Stop calling us Nazi's
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 07:43 AM
    22 hrs ago

    Ok,then STOP acting like Hitler and the Nazi party. Fucking duhhhhhhh.........

    tanyev

    (47,884 posts)
    4. Remember when Republicans were outraged! by government interference with corporations?
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 08:16 AM
    21 hrs ago

    *sigh* Seems like it was only a few months ago.

    ananda

    (33,315 posts)
    16. We've been a corporate fascist country for at least 25 years.
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 02:42 PM
    15 hrs ago

    But now there's no pretense of democracy.

    It's full fascist.

    bmichaelh

    (961 posts)
    6. Trump's Rasputin
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:22 AM
    20 hrs ago

    I heard one commentator this morning refer to Laura Loomer as Trump's Rasputin.

    travelingthrulife

    (3,350 posts)
    11. She is. I was just thinking that we need to get this woman away from Trump's ear.
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:32 AM
    19 hrs ago

    She is more nuts than he is.

    nwduke

    (453 posts)
    7. Sad that this Botox faced conspiracy loon
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:25 AM
    20 hrs ago

    has so much power over the dimwitted president!🤬

    ancianita

    (41,996 posts)
    8. Axios misconstrues trump's very words "It's my opinion that Microsoft..." as a demand. Microsoft can just "duly note"
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:11 AM
    20 hrs ago

    his opinion and carry on. He needs Microsoft as a contractor with the Pentagon more than Microsoft needs him.

    BumRushDaShow

    (160,717 posts)
    9. 45 doesn't care about the company
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:14 AM
    19 hrs ago

    only the individuals he feels wronged him... he is that tunnel-visioned.

    M$ is EVERYWHERE in the federal government (include the agency I retired from).

    ancianita

    (41,996 posts)
    10. RIGHT! As Garland's #2, Monaco "wronged" him by knowing more about nat'l security & counterterrorism than he, not to
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:30 AM
    19 hrs ago

    mention that as a woman and a Democrat, she's "part of the 'radical left wing scum' and 'enemy within.'"

    Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten that with him his vengeance is always about individuals.

    BumRushDaShow

    (160,717 posts)
    12. He is having his lackeys
    Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:55 AM
    19 hrs ago

    turn over every rock and lift every sofa cushion, to find anyone involved in any of the investigations and/or prosecutions of him, as well as anyone supportive of efforts to bring about and promote "diversity".

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