Trump Threatens ‘Very Bad’ Google, Warns Could Be Shut Down

Former President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and threatened that Google “has to be careful” or could be shut down for allegedly censoring pro-Trump sentiments. In a conversation about large tech platforms struggling to filter out misinformation surrounding the assassination attempt on Trump in mid-July, the former president praised Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s Elon Musk while slamming Google.

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      Gorgeous little phones. We love them don’t we folks? We do we do. I’ve been saying it, its true, these little beautiful cell phones, not like those cellphones we had back in the day, you remember, phones as big as your head, Mah Bell, its true, put’m in a suitcase, a guy stopped me once, he said “what kid of suite case is that”, I said, its true he said “what is that?”, I told him, “its a cellular phone”, he couldn’t believe it, couldn’t believe it, now they’re made in China… Cheyenah, what can you do, I have to give it to them, they make them so small now, but its great, little beautiful cell phones, Xi is doing incredibly with the phones, I know I know, I hate to say it folks, that’s why we have to get the chips, gotta get the chips, you used to have the phones right in the car, now their with you all the time…

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    “Folks…Google is very bad. Very bad… they have a word for it, they call it enshittification…enshittification. You can’t even Google anything anymore without adding ‘reddit’ to the end of your search…and you better hope there’s a reddit thread from nine years ago that answers your question because frankly, you won’t get it any other way…”

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      He’s gotten worse over time but he’s been bad for years. When he was president the media would say something like “President Trump voiced his concerns about Chinese trade policy.” But the fucking media wouldn’t actually quote him. Very time it was the same. He was the slowest kid in the class who didn’t read a page but now he has to give a book report to the whole class. Trump would vomit up world salad like “Trade - yeah. Trade is very, very important for America. I told China we wanted good trade deals because trade is very important…”

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      Ninja edit

      I did a quick google. I found something at “CNN Politics” but it’s not actual political news. It’s an article by the hack known as Chris Cillizza. CNN used to pay him to shitpost.

      The 45 most incoherent lines from Donald Trump’s rambling Rose Garden speech | CNN Politics

      Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

      Wed July 15, 2020

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    “We’re getting rid of the Google, folks. We’re going to bring back Jeeves the butler. We’re going to ask him things again. You know, nobody asked him a thing since 2005, that’s elder abuse. Just like they did to Sleepy Joe. But I know from experience, if you want to get something done right, you send your butler to do it, and I have the best butlers folks, let me tell you. Maids too. They’re so beautiful and handsome, some of the biggest and beautifulist folks. They leave me a little mint on my pillow every day, it’s amazing. But that’s what we’re going to do with all these tremendous webs on the Internet. We’re going to Ask Jeeves.” a-little-trolling

    Edit: Somehow I made him way more coherent. They should pay me to write his speeches in his manner of speech.

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    trump-moist

    They’re very bad, they’re doing Googles, they’re doing Monopoly Man, they’re doing… various things, and we hate it! We don’t like it, and many people are saying many things very strongly about it.

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    I feel like he’d get [removed by reddit] instantly if he ever were to be an actual threat to Google/Apple/etc.