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Trump calls for the firing of Lisa Monaco, Microsoft president of global affairs

32 points by perihelions 1y ago

duxup 1y ago
Government by personal grudges.
Jtsummers 1y ago
No actual justification given, no statement about what her "many wrongful acts" are. She's not been indicted for, or even accused of, any specific acts. This is just more nonsense.
- deleted 1y ago
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- 1659447091 1y ago
  Do you know if she the one that made the choice to block Israel surveillance? I don't remember seeing anything specific about her but seems like something that would provoke a Trump admin donor/friend to ask him to make that statement. If it were his own he would have gone on and on about his list of grievances
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - 1659447091 1y ago
    Can't edit now, but looks like that is exactly what it is about as Trump has a meeting with Israel’s prime minister on Monday -- so it lines up with priming the meeting
  - 1oooqooq 1y ago
    either that, or like Intel, she refused some kickback request hints.
  - AnimalMuppet 1y ago
    If so, then why not say so? Why just say "remove her", instead of "remove her because..."? Does Trump think that the whole world obeys his every word, with no justification needed?
    - 1659447091 1y ago
      It's not about obeying or any other nonsense. It's politics, which people seem to miss my point about. Israel’s prime minister is a Trump admin friend, he has a meeting with him on Monday. It follows a pattern of his admin to bring up things related to people he has dealings with just before he deals with them. It does not match his pattern of a real grievance of having offended him, in which case the bland (by Trump standards) statement was unlikely to be his idea and more likely his strategist politicking a move that also happen to check a couple auxiliary boxes -- so not anything that means anything other then a token to take into a meeting
      - AnimalMuppet 1y ago
        Ah, I see. Yes, makes sense.
    - sigwinch 1y ago
      It’s a template, right? Trump doesn’t know shit about Lisa Monaco. His post is a list of grievances with two prior administrations. At Microsoft, Monaco works with Trump’s own former trade rep CJ Mahoney. Loomer types and Trump hits send.
- croes 1y ago
  > Monaco had helped coordinate the Justice Department's response to the January 6, 2021, attacks by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol. She served as a security aide in the administration of President Barack Obama and was the deputy attorney general in President Joe Biden's administration.
belter 1y ago
"...Monaco was a security aide in former president Barack Obama's administration and served as the deputy attorney general in former president Joe Biden's administration..." https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-microsoft-should-fire-its-global-affairs-president-lisa-monaco-2025-09-26/ https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-microsoft-should... Wait until Laura Looner shows him Google famous internal video after his first victory...He will deport Larry and Sergey...
FranzFerdiNaN 1y ago
it doesn’t matter if you kiss the ring, Trump will always turn on you.
mindcrash 1y ago
"Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy." "Common themes among fascist movements include: authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism and religious nationalism), hierarchy, elitism, and militarism. Other aspects of fascism – such as a perception of decadence, anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism – can be seen to originate from these ideas."
LastTrain 1y ago
It is astounding to me how casual the attitude is about this, a sitting President maligning a private citizen, on the media platform he owns, calling for her termination.
- sigwinch 1y ago
  Well, his post and Loomer’s seminal post are bait. They get what they want if we react as if they’re telling the truth. It’s their first impulse to lie. Don’t fall for the faux outrage. It took him 15 minutes or more to type all that out, and the people commenting here think much faster than him and Loomer. It’s gonna look casual.
  - LastTrain 1y ago
    You are only partially right. Ultimately they are looking for cues about whether they can proceed from other conservative voices, the rest of us are just noise. Everything is either a trial balloon or another rung in the ladder of debasement. But they aren't lying, they will gladly have her removed if they can get away with it.
    - sigwinch 1y ago
      They’re very definitely lying. Trump’s rambling post on this lobs three or four major accusations that won’t stand up under scrutiny.
      - LastTrain 1y ago
        Whether he is lying about /her/ or not isn’t the point, that he is using his position of power to get a random citizen fired is. And it isn’t bluster, he would gladly succeed and do it again. That it doesn’t even seem to register to you as extraordinary only demonstrates my point.
k310 1y ago
Who else is old enough to remember the (deceased) party of laissez faire? Every assault seems curable by some "favor". Government by grift.
- bediger4000 1y ago
  I remember. When was the Republican party lying: then or now? One way or the other, Republican leadership is the lowest form of liars.

32 points by perihelions 1y ago

Government by personal grudges.

No actual justification given, no statement about what her "many wrongful acts" are. She's not been indicted for, or even accused of, any specific acts. This is just more nonsense.

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1659447091 1y ago
Do you know if she the one that made the choice to block Israel surveillance? I don't remember seeing anything specific about her but seems like something that would provoke a Trump admin donor/friend to ask him to make that statement. If it were his own he would have gone on and on about his list of grievances
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
- 1659447091 1y ago
  Can't edit now, but looks like that is exactly what it is about as Trump has a meeting with Israel’s prime minister on Monday -- so it lines up with priming the meeting
- 1oooqooq 1y ago
  either that, or like Intel, she refused some kickback request hints.
- AnimalMuppet 1y ago
  If so, then why not say so? Why just say "remove her", instead of "remove her because..."? Does Trump think that the whole world obeys his every word, with no justification needed?
  - 1659447091 1y ago
    It's not about obeying or any other nonsense. It's politics, which people seem to miss my point about. Israel’s prime minister is a Trump admin friend, he has a meeting with him on Monday. It follows a pattern of his admin to bring up things related to people he has dealings with just before he deals with them. It does not match his pattern of a real grievance of having offended him, in which case the bland (by Trump standards) statement was unlikely to be his idea and more likely his strategist politicking a move that also happen to check a couple auxiliary boxes -- so not anything that means anything other then a token to take into a meeting
    - AnimalMuppet 1y ago
      Ah, I see. Yes, makes sense.
  - sigwinch 1y ago
    It’s a template, right? Trump doesn’t know shit about Lisa Monaco. His post is a list of grievances with two prior administrations. At Microsoft, Monaco works with Trump’s own former trade rep CJ Mahoney. Loomer types and Trump hits send.
croes 1y ago
> Monaco had helped coordinate the Justice Department's response to the January 6, 2021, attacks by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol. She served as a security aide in the administration of President Barack Obama and was the deputy attorney general in President Joe Biden's administration.

belter 1y ago

"...Monaco was a security aide in former president Barack Obama's administration and served as the deputy attorney general in former president Joe Biden's administration..." https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-microsoft-should-fire-its-global-affairs-president-lisa-monaco-2025-09-26/ https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-microsoft-should... Wait until Laura Looner shows him Google famous internal video after his first victory...He will deport Larry and Sergey...

FranzFerdiNaN 1y ago

it doesn’t matter if you kiss the ring, Trump will always turn on you.

mindcrash 1y ago

"Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy." "Common themes among fascist movements include: authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism and religious nationalism), hierarchy, elitism, and militarism. Other aspects of fascism – such as a perception of decadence, anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism – can be seen to originate from these ideas."

LastTrain 1y ago

It is astounding to me how casual the attitude is about this, a sitting President maligning a private citizen, on the media platform he owns, calling for her termination.

sigwinch 1y ago
Well, his post and Loomer’s seminal post are bait. They get what they want if we react as if they’re telling the truth. It’s their first impulse to lie. Don’t fall for the faux outrage. It took him 15 minutes or more to type all that out, and the people commenting here think much faster than him and Loomer. It’s gonna look casual.
- LastTrain 1y ago
  You are only partially right. Ultimately they are looking for cues about whether they can proceed from other conservative voices, the rest of us are just noise. Everything is either a trial balloon or another rung in the ladder of debasement. But they aren't lying, they will gladly have her removed if they can get away with it.
  - sigwinch 1y ago
    They’re very definitely lying. Trump’s rambling post on this lobs three or four major accusations that won’t stand up under scrutiny.
    - LastTrain 1y ago
      Whether he is lying about /her/ or not isn’t the point, that he is using his position of power to get a random citizen fired is. And it isn’t bluster, he would gladly succeed and do it again. That it doesn’t even seem to register to you as extraordinary only demonstrates my point.

k310 1y ago

Who else is old enough to remember the (deceased) party of laissez faire? Every assault seems curable by some "favor". Government by grift.

bediger4000 1y ago
I remember. When was the Republican party lying: then or now? One way or the other, Republican leadership is the lowest form of liars.