Trump Calls Intel CEO a 'Success' After Demanding Resignation (cnbc.com) 158
Just days after demanding Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign over his past ties to China, President Trump reversed course, calling Tan a "success" following a White House meeting. "I met with Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, of Intel, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" CNBC reports: Tan has been an Intel director since 2022, and in March he replaced Pat Gelsinger as CEO. Last week Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., questioned Tan's ties to China. Cotton brought up a past criminal case involving Cadence Design, where Tan had been CEO, and asked whether Intel required Tan to divest from positions in chipmakers linked to the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army and any other concerning entities in China.
Trump's latest message marks a stark change in tone from last week. In a Truth Social post on Thursday, the president wrote that Tan "is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem." Intel said in a comment later that day that the company, directors and Tan are "deeply committed to advancing U.S. national and economic security interests."
Trump's latest message marks a stark change in tone from last week. In a Truth Social post on Thursday, the president wrote that Tan "is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem." Intel said in a comment later that day that the company, directors and Tan are "deeply committed to advancing U.S. national and economic security interests."
Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean really. How can anyone respect what this guy says? I feel like I'm living in crazy town with having to take this nonsense seriously.
Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Interesting)
I urge you to head over to Conservative gathering places like r/Conservative and see how they think these theatrics in inability to even stay on his own message are signs of his political genius,.
MAGA is a religion, a sort of neo-Pharaohism, where Trump is given the same god-like powers as kings like Ramses or Alexander the Great. He is incapable in their eyes of anything short of complete brilliance, so that even when it's clear he's a moron, they take that evidence of intense terminal stupidity as a sign of just how powerful his brilliance is.
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It's even stronger than Reagan's was, which frankly surprises (and scares) me. And Reagan had the advantage of being an actor - Trump just looks and sounds like a blow-hard buffoon every time he opens his mouth, but people just lap it up.
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Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:4)
Reagan was in pretty serious cognitive decline during his second term, which his Cabinet basically concealed. This is the American system, where even obvious signs that someone is cognitively compromised isn't enough to remove them. Basically the only time the 25th Amendment could ever work is if the President's brain falls out of his head, but the brainstem stays intact and keeps informing the heart to pump. Other than that, the Cabinet and Congressional leaders will do everything in their power to keep even severely mentally ill or delusional people in office.
What a fucking moronic system.
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Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Trump gets special mention because while he wasn't suffering from any kind of obvious mental decline his first term, and entire apparatus formed around him to insulate important systems from his ineptitude.
This is the danger of being overly partisan.
Even removing a President because they sadly can't serve in the proper capacity anymore isn't a realistic option, because it'd be perceived as a W for their enemies.
Washington would have been quite disappointed.
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SNL was making plenty of jokes about it at the time as well. When Reagan finally did reveal his Alzheimers diagnosis, it wasn't like anyone was horribly shocked, more like "Oh, yeah, that's why..."
Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Reagan would get lynched by the party today.
In 1984 he offered amnesty for people in the country illegally. https://www.npr.org/2010/07/04... [npr.org]
In 2025 MAGA has a boner for masked man kidnapping people into unmarked rental vans and taken to a "camp".
Even Hitler's brown shirts didn't cover their faces like cowards.
Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Law enforcement requires that officers show ID, things like probable cause(and you can't use skin color as probable cause legally), a warrant, etc. There is the idea of reading someone their rights as well. So, if you believe in the idea of the rule of law and upholding the law, then ICE should be held to accounts. If they do not follow the rules, then they are effectively kidnapping people, and that means they SHOULD be stopped.
Re:Gotta love a reality show host for Prez!! (Score:4, Insightful)
You'd have to be a massive bootlicker to think that's okay.
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It's even stronger than Reagan's was, which frankly surprises (and scares) me. And Reagan had the advantage of being an actor - Trump just looks and sounds like a blow-hard buffoon every time he opens his mouth, but people just lap it up.
One of the things you notice in reality TV land, if you are unfortunate enough to be stuck watching some of it with relatives, is the way that the people in those situations tend to flock to the blow-hard buffoons and treat them as if they are tremendous leaders. Like it or not, we're living in a world where a large portion of people grew up watching these shows, or people who have flocked to these shows and retrained their brain to see them as a normal small-sized version of society at large, and have trai
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I don't know, he hasn't herded the Maggots down to Mexico to have their balls cut off or got them to drink some special Kool-Aid in preparation for meeting the aliens on a comet.
There is something (only the one thing?) a bit wacky about them. They thought that idiot was going to release the Epstein Files and then the Democrats would be running for cover, and this after he had the FBI scrub his name off them. They are still convinced Hillary was running a pedo ring from Epstein's Island. Some are stupid enou
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It is definitely the strongest cult of personality that has existed in my lifetime.
I was born after Stalin died (and Hitler of course), but Nicolae Ceauescu got his inspiration from North Korea so NK may be the competition.
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Indeed. The Emperor's New Clothes seems oddly modern.
Most right-wing spaces (Score:2)
On the other hand it means that anyone frequenting those spaces is completely overwhelmed by propaganda and will never get an alternative viewpoint or any contradictory facts to their worldview.
And you kind of need that because the right wing's fundamental underpinning is the belief that there is a sacred and natural hierarchy that must not and can not be violated. If you strip away the sp
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Is it a drama, or just another check clearing?
The former "leader of the free world", the land of the "brave" and he home of the "free", the USA, becoming without opposition the Trumpistan, the brightest international beacon of corruption and incompetence in just 7 short months was extremely disappointing, if not entirely unexpected.
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End of the FP branch, but nothing about intel in there? Okay because it started with a joke and jokes can lead anywhere? (Actually I double-checked the answer of my first question and did find an AC brain fart. Now sorry I looked at it, but already forgotten except that it mentioned Intel twice.) But the FP was the only Funny in the story, and it surely deserved more humor.
Anyway, the joke I was looking for would have involved self-contradiction. You know the YOB is lying when he contradicts himself without
I have some namesci call Trump (Score:2)
Re:I have some namesci call Trump (Score:5, Informative)
Rinse, repeat.
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If you can spot the trades you've got something. If not then it's just speculation.
Re:I have some namesci call Trump (Score:5, Informative)
If you can spot the trades you've got something. If not then it's just speculation.
In April, there was a subtantive amount of activiy buying same day expiring call options [ainvest.com] minutes before he told everyone it was a good time to buy.
Marjorie Taylor Greene made stock purchases [yahoo.com] days before Palantir was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the U.S. government. Her trades are up 142% since then.
Re:I have some namesci call Trump (Score:5, Informative)
It seems his net worth has doubled since his first term. https://www.bloomberg.com/feat... [bloomberg.com]
What an odd fucking coincidence.
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That is an insult to those of limited intelligence, because Trump is even less intelligent than those who are technically retarded.
This would be funny (Score:3)
In another universe where an elderly man didn’t command a cult and a government.
Re: This would be funny (Score:2)
With nukes. You forgot the nukes.
Re: This would be funny (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot the nukes.
It'd be a lot easier to keep doing so if you'd quit bringing them up
"Trump Calls- (Score:2)
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Well, some idiot president appointed Jerome Powell.
Concerns? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Should we be? Trump told us he would do these things, plus the purpose is to distract the country from Epstein.
Maybe this time they won't ignore Trump's order to shoot protesters in the streets. Plus Alligator Alcatraz can't take the entire black population of DC.
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If Trump were Hitler, Joe Biden wouldn't have happened.
Dial it back a notch, I'm worried about your blood pressure.
Look- he has the power to take over the police functions of the district. He has the power deploy the military when people get in the way of enforcing Federal law.
Maybe it's time an incomplete shitwad DID use those powers, so that we can all fucking remember they're there- granted by Congress- under the assumption that someone like this would never be in office.
Trump is not Hitler. However, he does aspire to be Putin, Xi, and other autocrats. Trump already had this aspiration in his first term, but the didn't fully appreciate how much the Constitution holds him back from being an autocrat. In his second term, he has learned what the weaknesses of the Constitution are. The biggest weakness is that the the judiciary and the legislature are forced to rely solely on the president to obey laws and court orders and thus are essentially powerless in the face of a pre
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Trump is not Hitler. However, he does aspire to be Putin, Xi, and other autocrats.
Nonsense. You're just not used to a Republican actually exercising the power either granted by law/Constitution or delegated/abrogated by Congress.
I suppose he could go full Jackson [wikipedia.org] on the courts, but he hasn't. He's learned how to conduct lawfare and people are freaking out that their tactics are being used against them.
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He [Trump] has the power deploy the military when people get in the way of enforcing Federal law.
Isn't that exactly what the Posse Comitatus Act [wikipedia.org] prohibits? It "limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States", except "Federal troops used in accordance to the Insurrection Act, which has been invoked 23 times, as of 1992." There's always a catch.
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Not to belittle 1/6- but still, that was precisely him hoping for something without trying in the slightest.
He's too much of a fucking cuck.
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Oh Trump tried, 1/6 was just the last attempt. Or the culmination of a plan depending on how you look at it.
Trump fake electors plot [wikipedia.org]
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I'm going to go ahead and say it again.
That's what it looks like when Hitler tries. [wikipedia.org]
All this coloring in the lines shit- you really do yourself a disservice when you try to compare it to actual descents into dictatorship.
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Meh. That isn't even the first time in history there's been an alternate slate of electors sent to the capital.
Alternate slate is NOT a *false slate*. These people were LYING.
Hawaii for JFK is in no way comparable as both slates were approved by the legislature. Your meh's are complicit.
you really do yourself a disservice when you try to compare it to actual descents into dictatorship.
And I would say you are doing a disservice by having your head in the sand about what is actually taking place and what they have already done in the last 9 years. Intentionally ignorant I might say.
Re:Concerns? (Score:5, Informative)
I’m fucking terrified. The “don’t tread on me” crowd sure is silent on this matter. I guess they secretly love to be tread on.
Re:Concerns? (Score:5, Insightful)
It really is frightening to contemplate how far he might be able to push this kind of stuff. This is a completely manufactured crisis, DC's rate of crime may be high but it isnt even close to being the highest in the country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] .
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Not really. It's a Federal district, and one of his staffers got mugged and severely beaten in a failed carjacking attempt. The crime situation there is - while slowly improving! allegedly! - pretty bad.
If the President doesn't trust the popo to save his Big Balls (or whoever else) from violent gangs then bringing in some National Guard units to a city owned and operated by the Feds to reinforce policing is, at worst, a little over the top.
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And? How does it compare to other major metro areas? That's like saying Baltimore has lowered its crime rate to the lowest in 30 years. It could still be awful. D.C. still has a high homicide rate in particular.
Also there are allegations that crimes in D.C. are being under-reported:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/... [nbcwashington.com]
All that aside, you're ignoring the fact that Trump did this in response to one of his staff (or former staff, or whatever he is now) being attacked by a mob of teenage carjackers. That's really
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Beyond that, are you really going to try to compare Austin, TX's homicide rate with D.C.'s?
Not that I think that justifies calling in the Guard or some shit, but fuck, you'd probably have more luck if your arguments weren't so fucking stupid.
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You might have better luck if you read the whole thread. The moron I was replying to used a single mugging as justification for trump's actions; it seems that three murders would be a better excuse. You're the one that claimed I was comparing homicide rates.
I did read the whole thread.
It is true that they did mention a single individual event, they also referred to its overall crime rate, which actually is pretty bad.
This doesn't justify the Guard in my personal view, but it's also not wrong.
You then seemed to ignore that, and applied his dumb example to a city with a quite low violent crime rate.
What is your shtick about, anyway? You seem to put a lot of effort into criticizing imperfect arguments that agree with you, while ignoring many claims of varying stupidiity that you disagree with.
My schtick is to shit on each and every person trying to perpetuate this post-truth society that has evolved from our political quagmire, as fairly as I can.
I guess the thought is that if everyone to the left of the RWNJs would just make their arguments a bit better and avoid hyperbole, we could have a rational discussion and we'd get rid of some of this rightward insanity.
Nailed
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However, I don't think this is a "perfect is the enemy of good" situation.
The people I'm targeting have pretty serious delusions about what's going on here.
Ya, we've got the most illiberal twat waffle shit-for-brains with an IQ of 45 in the Oval that we've ever had.
This impotent fuck is deploying the National Guard- a force that will not, under any fucking circumstances, help him become a dictator- to cities that are politically aligned against him- to what? Round up illegal immigrants? That
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You know how someone like Trump ends up in office? Those who are right were shouted down by those who were wrong, and they got fucking tired of arguing with them.
Liberals seem to have given up on things like principles and are trying to beat him at his own game.
I'd say this is a bit more than "old man yells at cloud".
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When Austin becomes a Federal district. Or when there's a mass riot that requires a national guard presence. Or similar.
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You can limit it to just the top 5, if you like.
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Do you deny that Judges and Politicians get 10x to 100x the number of death threats after Trump tells his Brown Shirts that they "hate America"?
Nope.
Do you deny that Judges family members have been killed as a direct result?
Nope. There has indeed been a single instance of it.
Do you deny that as a result of Jan 6, and Trumps rhetoric, that five police officers died?
Well, no police officers died as a direct result of 1/6- however, there were some very sad suicides.
Do you deny? and deny? and deny?
Do you deny that politicians have been shot and killed by liberal activists?
Now, as I said- list the number of judges and politicians taken out by Trump supporters.
There are fucking nutballs of every political persuasion. What makes Trump's shitbags Brown Shirts, and the noble warriors shooting up Congressional tennis matches or firebombing houses no
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It's almost like one of those is a prescribed political solution, and one of them is, well, terrorism.
Do you think all of that 327% was conservative threats? Have you forgotten the L's that liberal causes in the courts have taken in the last 2 years?
This is the problem- you're entirely disconnected from reality. You think your shit don't stink.
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I don't think that it is too much to expect for our elected leaders to lead by example.
I agree with you. Shittiest example set by a President in... fuck, it almost seems quaint to bother to guess how long. Dude's more of an embarrassment than Nixon.
That they do not call other people degrading names, and that they don't incite violence against those we simply disagree with.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Above, I said I agree that right-wing political violence is a larger problem than left-wing.
However, left-wing political violence (and threats) are also a very large problem.
Liberals and Conservatives have similar body counts right now.
In terms of threatening Judges- both of them do it.
Trump is accelerating this-
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None of this rises to the level of fucking Brown Shirts though. Are you genuinely not aware [wikipedia.org] that shit like this is also happening?
Just to finish the story, "After arriving at Kavanaugh's residence, Roske called the police on himself and was arrested."
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We really don't have anyone "extreme left" in politics here in the USA. Those like Bernie and AOC are slightly to the left of center, but Republicans have pulled things so far to the right that Bernie and AOC may SEEM like extreme left by comparison.
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I suspect you probably read what I wrote and thought, "Dumbfuck Trump supporter". It turns out, that there happen to be a whole class of people that are as fucking dumb as motherfuckers with red hats, and they're liberal. They're harder to identify, though. Until they out themselves, of course. Shame you didn't put a name to your stupidity.
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One of the big problems here is that he's testing the restrictiveness of said limitations to an extent that we've never seen in post WW2 America. It doesn't at all feel like that's something an honest president would be doing. Sure, we might come out of this wiser in regards to garbage leadership like this but that hardly seems like a guaranteed result right now.
Re:Concerns? (Score:4, Insightful)
I agree with all of your sentiments, except for your concern that he's going to somehow take his douchebaggery to the level of dictatorship.
He literally said he would be a dictator, but only on the first day. I sure do feel relieved.
https://apnews.com/article/tru... [apnews.com]
I think if someone handed him a dictatorship, he'd take it- no question.
The Supreme court did just that.
But it's not like he's done anything of actual consequence, nor do I think he has the balls to. There's no way someone who tries to use the resources available to the Federal Government to impose a dictatorship gets a happy ending.
47% of MAGA would still support him even if he fucked children. https://www.yahoo.com/news/art... [yahoo.com]
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Trump Calls Intel CEO a 'Success' After Demanding Resignation
How much $TRUMP coin did the guy buy?
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He found out that LBT is filthy rich (Score:3)
Schizophrenia or market manipulation (Score:2)
Seriously. What is he doing?
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Neither, he's taking soft control of the company so they'll be amenable to whatever future plan he has for them, be it spinning off the fabs or whatever else he has in mind.
If Trump's staffers understand anything about the semiconductor business (which is questionable) then he's probably getting them ready for a spinoff of IFS. Then Trump will strongarm TSMC into buying 49% of IFS.
Re:Schizophrenia or market manipulation (Score:4, Insightful)
Neither, he's taking soft control of the company so they'll be amenable to whatever future plan he has for them, be it spinning off the fabs or whatever else he has in mind.
If Trump's staffers understand anything about the semiconductor business (which is questionable) then he's probably getting them ready for a spinoff of IFS. Then Trump will strongarm TSMC into buying 49% of IFS.
So government is seizing the means of production? Sounds like communism to me. I thought you were all about small government not meddling with private enterprise?
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No, the government is trying to manipulate a company into selling itself off to a more-successful competitor. Seizing the means of production would entail nationalizing Intel outright.
The fact that the DoJ apparently has LBT in its sights gives the Feds the leverage they need to manipulate him.
Trophy? (Score:2)
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He successfully resigned (Score:2)
Seriously, he did what Trump told him to do. That's "success" in the eyes of Trump.
WTF is this tag line of his? (Score:5, Interesting)
"Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
He's been ending posts with this non-sequitir add-on a fair bit lately. In his head does he think it's the 50s/60s and he's sending out delinquency notices to his father's tenants?
That would explain a lot of things, admittedly...
Epstein files please? (Score:2)
Aren't you MAGAts glad Sleepy Joe isn't in charge? He'll trans your kids!
How are those cheap eggs treating you?
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Re:Epstein files please? (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot to put in, "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" at the end of your post, Donnie.
***takes billions of government dollars*** (Score:2)
Agreed on the backdoor (Score:3)
Easy he was talked to and approved the backdoor. Or errr another backdoor door
That's GOTTA be a new record! (Score:2)
TACO in chief (Score:3)
And have you forgotten about Epstein yet? (Score:2)
Granted, the SCOTUS has already declared that laws do not apply to him, so it doesn't really matter. Nonetheless, he is wearing himself thin trying to run his own interference plays here.
Wanna bet (Score:2)
He gave Trump something Trump wants (Score:2)
I wonder what it was.
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My name will appear on that list for buying INTC on the Trump tweet. Itâ(TM)s called the T.A.C.O. trade and is well established by now.
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You have something on your nose.
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Trump is senile and has been for a long time. "The weave" can only cover it up so much as time goes on, he doesn't control it anymore.
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To be doubly pedantic, he is calling LBP a success - noun.
But Fuck Trump.