President Donald Trump is concentrating on Susan Rice’s place on the board of Netflix, calling the previous diplomat a “racist” and a “political hack” after she spoke out in opposition to his company allies this week.
Rice was on former U.S. Lawyer Preet Bharara’s podcast when she criticized companies that acquiesced to the Trump administration. She warned that when Democrats have been again in energy, these companies “are going to be held accountable.”
“It isn’t going to finish nicely for them. For those who determined that they’d act of their perceived, very slender self curiosity, which I’d underscore as very short-term self-interest, and take a knee to Trump, I feel they’re now beginning to notice, ‘Wait a minute, this isn’t common. Trump shouldn’t be common.’”
Far-right political activist and self-described “loyalty enforcer” of President Trump, Laura Loomer, referred to as Netflix “Anti-American” for Rice’s feedback on her X account. She additionally condemned a possible Netflix-Warner Bros merger, which Trump has just lately stated he shouldn’t be concerned in. Netflix is presently battling Paramount Skydance in an acquisition warfare for Warner Bros and has an settlement to purchase the multimedia company for $83 billion. However final week, Warner Bros opened up negotiations with Paramount in hopes of a greater deal.
On Saturday (Feb. 21), Trump reacted to Loomer’s put up about Rice’s feedback on his Reality Social account, demanding Netflix hearth her from the board, “or pay the results.” Rice served on the corporate’s board from 2018 to 2021, then rejoined in 2023 after working underneath the Biden administration.
“Netflix ought to hearth racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the results. She’s received no expertise or abilities – Purely a political hack! HER POWER IS GONE, AND WILL NEVER BE BACK. How a lot is she being paid, and for what??? Thanks in your consideration to this matter.”
Netflix has not issued a response to the President’s put up.
Rice is a former diplomat who has served underneath the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations. Her latest put up within the White Home was as Joe Biden’s home coverage advisor, which she stepped down from in Could 2023.
