Here’s a bunch of bananas shit Trump said today about breaking up Google

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Former president Donald Trump threatened in an interrogation today that, if elected president, helium would “do something” astir Google but stopped abbreviated of specifically saying helium would interruption up the company.

In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s connection to perchance interruption up Google and asked Trump if Google should beryllium breached up. Trump initially didn’t code Google astatine all, alternatively seemingly zeroing successful connected the Justice Department portion of that question to rant astir a caller DOJ suit against Virginia predetermination officials.

But aft Micklethwait got Trump backmost connected people (“the question is astir Google, President Trump”), Trump expressed his unhappiness with however “bad stories” look to aboveground much connected Google and however helium called the “head” of Google to explicit his frustration:

Yeah, look, Google’s got a batch of power. They’re precise atrocious to me. Very, precise atrocious to me. I tin talk from that standpoint. They lone person atrocious stories... successful different words, if I person 20 bully stories and 20 atrocious stories, and everyone’s entitled to that, you’ll lone spot the 20 atrocious stories. I called the caput of Google the different time and I said, “I’m getting a batch of bully stories lately, but you don’t find them successful Google.” I deliberation it’s a full rigged deal. I deliberation Google’s rigged conscionable similar our government’s rigged each implicit the place.

Presumably, Trump is referring to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai here. Google wouldn’t corroborate to The Verge if Trump had really called Pichai.

Micklethwait past asked, “so you would interruption them up, successful different words?” And that’s wherever Trump said he’d “do something” to Google earlier starting to pivot into a speech astir China:

I’d bash something. But you person to have... look, I springiness them a batch of credit. They’ve go specified a power. Such a power. And you’ve got to springiness them recognition for that. How they became a powerfulness is truly the discussion. At the aforesaid time, it’s a precise unsafe happening due to the fact that we privation to person large companies. We don’t privation China to person these companies. Right now, China is acrophobic of Google. China is simply a very powerful, precise astute radical of people, I volition archer you that from idiosyncratic experi--

Micklethwait past asked Trump if helium would force ByteDance to merchantability TikTok. Trump demurred with a confusing treatment astir the attempted TikTok prohibition from his administration. Micklethwait followed up to inquire wherefore Trump nary longer sees TikTok arsenic a information threat, and Trump utilized that to crook the speech backmost to Google.

In this portion of the interview, Trump said that alternatively of breaking the institution up, unspecified changes could beryllium implemented to marque things “more fair.” He besides claimed that Pichai told Trump that helium was the “number 1 person” connected “all of Google” for stories earlier falling backmost onto immoderate of his accustomed rhetoric astir fake news.

The afloat quote:

I deliberation it is simply a threat. Frankly I deliberation everything’s a threat. There’s thing that’s not a threat. But sometimes you person to combat done these threats. Like, Google: I’m not a instrumentality of Google. They dainty maine badly. But are you going to destruct the institution by doing that? If you bash that are you going to destruct the company? What you tin do, without breaking it up, is marque definite it’s much fair. They bash dainty maine precise badly. Oh and helium told me, “No way, you’re the fig 1 idiosyncratic connected each of Google for stories.” Which astir apt makes consciousness to beryllium honorable to me, astir of them are atrocious stories, but these are insignificant details, right? And it’s lone atrocious due to the fact that of fake news. Because the quality is truly fake. That’s the 1 we truly person to straighten out. We person to straighten retired our property due to the fact that we person a corrupt press. [Applause]

These aren’t the archetypal vague statements toward Google from Trump during this predetermination cycle. In August, Trump said that Google “has to beryllium careful” and that helium “had a feeling Google is going to beryllium adjacent to unopen down.” JD Vance, Trump’s moving mate, called for a breakup of Google in February.

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