Trump demands Microsoft oust global affairs chief over Biden-era ties

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

Updated 12 hours ago


President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.

Why it matters: Trump's push for one of the world's largest companies to oust one of its top executives is the latest example of the administration's broad efforts to exert more active oversight of corporate America.

What they're saying: "It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco," Trump said in a Truth Social post, calling her "Corrupt and Totally Trump Deranged."

Trump described her as a "menace to U.S. National Security," citing Microsoft's government contracts.

He withdrew her security clearances last March in the same order where he also withdrew clearances for former president Biden and Hillary Clinton, among others.

The intrigue: Far-right activist Laura Loomer claimed credit for the push to oust Monaco in a post on X, saying she alerted Trump to Monaco's role.

Loomer tagged Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in her post, asking "[A]re you going to comply? Or continue to be two faced?"

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/trump-microsoft-lisa-monaco

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Fascists and communists both exert direct government control over business. . . . nt

[Champp]

2. Republicans really are the party of BIG GOVERNMENT

That's another thing the Republicans have been lying about for decades. They have their big greedy grubby noses in everything.

[PatSeg]

13. Yeah, they're fine with big government

as long as it is THEIR big government. When Democrats are in power, they put on their small government hats and suddenly become fiscally responsible.

[Bengus81]

3. Stop calling us Nazi's...Stop calling us Nazi's

Ok,then STOP acting like Hitler and the Nazi party. Fucking duhhhhhhh.........

[tanyev]

4. Remember when Republicans were outraged! by government interference with corporations?

*sigh* Seems like it was only a few months ago.

[mwb970]

5. Mussolini described Fascism as the merging of the corporations and the State.

[ananda]

16. We've been a corporate fascist country for at least 25 years.

But now there's no pretense of democracy.

It's full fascist.

[bmichaelh]

6. Trump's Rasputin

I heard one commentator this morning refer to Laura Loomer as Trump's Rasputin.

[travelingthrulife]

11. She is. I was just thinking that we need to get this woman away from Trump's ear.

She is more nuts than he is.

[nwduke]

7. Sad that this Botox faced conspiracy loon

has so much power over the dimwitted president!🤬

[kimbutgar]

14. Botox destroys their brain cells look at Puppy killer Noem, Mace, Bondi etc

[ancianita]

8. Axios misconstrues trump's very words "It's my opinion that Microsoft..." as a demand. Microsoft can just "duly note"

his opinion and carry on. He needs Microsoft as a contractor with the Pentagon more than Microsoft needs him.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. 45 doesn't care about the company

only the individuals he feels wronged him... he is that tunnel-visioned.

M$ is EVERYWHERE in the federal government (include the agency I retired from).

[ancianita]

10. RIGHT! As Garland's #2, Monaco "wronged" him by knowing more about nat'l security & counterterrorism than he, not to

mention that as a woman and a Democrat, she's "part of the 'radical left wing scum' and 'enemy within.'"

Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten that with him his vengeance is always about individuals.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He is having his lackeys

turn over every rock and lift every sofa cushion, to find anyone involved in any of the investigations and/or prosecutions of him, as well as anyone supportive of efforts to bring about and promote "diversity".

[RobinA]

18. True, That

Maybe there will be an advantage to allowing Microsoft to become a monopoly.

[ancianita]

19. and...

keep in mind that Microsoft ran its cyber war room for the US Military before this tv prez ever showed up.

https://archive.ph/Gibal

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Hey Slobfather

Stay in your lane.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. MaddowBlog-Trump presses Microsoft to 'immediately terminate' Biden administration veteran

For the third time in three months, the president has pushed a private-sector giant to fire someone he disliked. The Lisa Monaco example is the most serious.

Trump pretends he is also CEO of Microsoft - orders company to fire Biden administration staffer.

Trump presses Microsoft to ‘immediately terminate’ Biden administration veteran www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-09-29T20:23:08.088Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-microsoft-lisa-monaco-rcna234517

Donald Trump has complained bitterly about Lisa Monaco for years, but late last week, the president went quite a bit further than he has before. NBC News reported:

Trump said on Truth Social ... that Microsoft should ‘immediately terminate’ its president of global affairs, Lisa Monaco. Monaco previously held a number of top government national security roles, including serving as deputy attorney general for the duration of the Biden administration. Monaco began working for Microsoft in July, according to a LinkedIn post.

As part of a long and rambling online tantrum, the president condemned Monaco as “corrupt” and “deranged,” before complaining that she will have “access to Highly Sensitive Information” in her current role.

Trump added, “Monaco’s having that kind of access is unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand. She is a menace to U.S. National Security, especially given the major contracts that Microsoft has with the United States Government. Because of Monaco’s many wrongful acts, the U.S. Government recently stripped her of all Security Clearances, took away all of her access to National Security Intelligence, and banned her from all Federal Properties. It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco.”.....

What’s more, this an important reflection of the president’s authoritarian vision: He’s not just the president of the United States, he also sees himself as America’s CEO, which he apparently believes affords him great influence over the nation’s private sector.

NBC News’ report noted, “It is highly unusual for a president to call for a company to fire a private citizen from their job.” That’s true — or at least, it used to be true......

Putting aside that Trump tried to smear Monaco without cause, his reference to Microsoft’s government contracts opens a radical and dangerous door: Would the president use his office to steer contracts away from the tech giant unless and until it agreed to fire someone he doesn’t like for political reasons? Given his track record, is such a possibility that hard to believe?