Trump says Netflix will face “consequences” if it doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice | TechCrunch

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 Preet Bhara’s “Stay Tuned with Preet” podcast and predicted that corporations that “kneel” at Trump will be “held accountable” when Democrats return to power.

“If these corporations think that when the Democrats come back to power, they’re going to, you know, play by the old rules and (…) say, ‘Oh, never mind. We’re going to forgive you all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you broke, all the, you know, laws you circumvented,’ I think there’s another thing coming,” Rice said.

In response, Trump posted on his Truth Social social network: “Netflix should FIRE racist, Trump-crazed Susan Rice IMMEDIATELY or pay the consequences. She has no talent or skill – pure political hack! HER POWER IS GONE AND NEVER COMING BACK. How much is she being paid and for what???”

Trump’s post also includes a screenshot of a post by far-right activist Laura Loomer, who criticizes Rice’s comments, saying “a Netflix-Warner Bros. merger would result in a streaming monopoly in which the Obamas would have a significant stake” due to the deal between Netflix and the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground.

While Trump’s post did not mention specific implications, Netflix’s massive acquisition of Warner Bros. will 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 subsequently saying that Netflix is ​​”a great company (…) but they have a lot of market share, so we’ll see what happens.”

Last fall, Trump made 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.