President Donald Trump
Trump Demands Netflix Fire Board Member Susan Rice or ‘Pay the Consequences’
February 21, 2026
If Netflix thought it could avoid politics (and President Trump) securing government approval of its $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio assets, that notion blew up spectacularly Feb. 21 when the president demanded the streamer fire board member Susan Rice, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor under the Obama Administration.
In a social media post, Trump, citing a blog post from right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, called on Netflix to fire Rice following her comments on a separate podcast this week where the former ambassador warned about corporations she claimed are ingratiating themselves to the Trump Administration at the expense of future popular and political support.
“Fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social X account. “She’s got no talent or skills — Purely a political hack! HER POWER IS GONE, AND WILL NEVER BE BACK. How much is she being paid, and for what??? Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”
Speaking on Preet Bharara’s podcast, “Stay Tuned for Preet,” released Feb. 19, Rice told the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that “it is not going to end well for [the companies],” if and when the political tide turns against Trump.
“For those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self interest, which I would underscore as very short-term self-interest, and take a knee to Trump, I think they are now starting to realize, ‘Wait a minute. This is not popular. Trump is not popular,'” Rice said.
Her comments come as Netflix’s acquisition of WBD faces ongoing antitrust scrutiny in the Trump-controlled Justice Department, and in Congress.
Trump’s public ire follows his most-recent assertion that he would not take a personal role in the Netflix/WBD/Paramount acquisition saga.
Rival suitor Paramount Skydance this week announced that its hostile $108.4 billion bid for WBD had passed government antitrust scrutiny.
Paramount has bent over backwards trying to please Trump through the hiring of Rene Augustine, a former special assistant to Trump and senior associate counsel in the office of White House Counsel, to the position SVP of global public policy, reporting to chief legal officer Makan Delrahim — Trump’s former antitrust boss in his first administration.
Paramount also hired Bari Weiss, a self-described “radical centrist,” as editor-in-chief of CBS News, including “60 Minutes.” Weiss, in her first months on the job, has come under fire for her perceived bias favoring the Trump Administration in news reporting and coverage.
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“If Netflix thought it could avoid politics. . . ” Any writer who thinks Netflix avoids politics is a lightweight who has not been paying attention to both Netflix history and content production, despite any more recent perceived cozying up for political expediency. Netflix brought Susan Rice to the board BECAUSE of their, and her, political activism — certainly not evidence of political neutrality or political avoidance. And as of course, as a way of laundering money to her in payment for her continued globalist activism.
Of course, what neither Trump nor Laura Loomer are self-aware enough to understand is that they are both making Susan Rice’s point for her with their puerile, dictatorial demands that she be dismissed from the Netflix board.