Corporate America Begins To Fall In Line For Donald Trump

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Hi, I'm Mike Papantonio, and this is America's Lawyer where we dig behind the headlines to give the details and information that corporate media just is incapable of giving you. As always, I'm here with Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins, the best, absolutely the best progressive voice in the business. I know I say that a lot, but I truly mean it. In case you haven't figured out.

I appreciate it.

The stories are all over the place this week. There's so much coming at us. You found a story I thought was brilliant. It was the story about corporate America sucking up to Trump the same way that Joe and Mika sucked up to Trump. I read this story and I said, my God, is this now, is this the new thing? Do we show up in Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring? This is pathetic. What I'm seeing with corporate America is pathetic. Pick it up.

It really is. And Joe and Mika really did kick it off, so you gotta give full credit to them. They really started this, we all have to suck up to Trump thing. And then Mark Zuckerberg, who Trump a few months ago, threatened to send him to jail for the rest of his life. Zuckerberg goes down to Mar-a-Lago day before Thanksgiving. They have a wonderful dinner together. And Zuckerberg, of course, well, Elon Musk was not happy about this, right? That's his big competition in the social media world. But Zuckerberg down there, because Zuckerberg knows, okay, I've gotta come over here and kiss the ring. I don't want regulations. I don't want anybody coming after Meta because they actually just had a horrible court ruling against them in Washington.

Yes, yes.

Tens of millions of dollars. So he knows, okay, look, I have probably got a lot more lawsuits that could be on the back burner.

He's on the ropes right now.

Yeah. Let me go cozy up to the guy that's picking the DOJ. Let's make sure that we don't get any antitrust suits or anything like that, because that's what it's about. We don't want to get investigated. We don't want to get sued. I'll stay at Mar-a-Lago. I'll book a bunch of rooms. I'll pay all the money. Just please let us do whatever the hell we want for the next four years.

Farron, okay, wait. You're Zuckerberg, right? You go down to kiss Trump's ring. When you do, here's what you know, this is a guy that said, if you screw up again Zuckerberg, you're gonna have life in prison. He literally said that. He complained about the fact that Zuckerberg has hustled him, become a Democrat spokesman, a Democrat voice that gave $400 million to some of the issues that the Dems were talking about on Covid and some other issues. So he says that you're gonna spend life in prison if you don't come into understanding what I wanna say to you. Alright, here's what I remember about Zuckerberg. I don't think I ever heard him talking, I mean, two years ago, where this overused word existential. I love that you never use that word existential. It's like every idiot in the media has picked up on this word, existential threat to democracy, existential threat to whatever. So he's using the existential word almost nonstop about what a threat Trump is. It's a tough turnaround, man. And if you're Trump, what do you do with it? You've got him, basically. You've got the little guy. And as you say, the lawsuits have just started. We have a whole string of lawsuits we're getting ready to bring in against this little guy. So take it from there.

Yeah. And those are damaging enough. What Zuckerberg is truly concerned about are the potential DOJ charges for antitrust, monopoly, those kinds of things. Google has already been hit with that. So he knows I have to play ball. I can no longer criticize this man. If I gotta start writing some checks, I'll do that. I'm gonna do whatever it takes to keep the DOJ off my back.

It's pathetic.

It is.

It's his business. But it's pathetic. It's just as pathetic as this story that you found. I love this story. You found this, I guess it's a, maybe a Wall Street, yeah, Wall Street Journal article, oddly enough. But it's these sycophant types in corporate America, gee whiz, we're here to talk to you. We're different now.