Former President Donald Trump rebuked Google for promoting negative stories about him two weeks before the 2024 election.

Trump sat down for a live Oct. 15 interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago, where the pair discussed the recent federal cases brought against Google. The Department of Justice specifically accused Google of using monopolistic practices to secure its position as America's top search engine. 

“Google’s got a lot of power. They’re very bad to me, very very bad to me, I can speak from that standpoint,” Trump said in response to Micklethwait’s question about the ongoing lawsuit. Trump seemingly referred to an MRC study (published Oct. 15) that exposed Google’s bias when users searched for the Trump campaign. He added, “If I have 20 good stories and 20 bad stories—and everyone’s entitled to that—you’ll only see the 20 bad stories.” 

This was not the first time Trump has come out against Google's election interference during the election season—and not the first time MRC exposed Google’s bias.

“It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris.” Trump shared on Truth on Sept. 27. Two days earlier, MRC released a study that showed the tech giant pushing widely biased news above Trump’s campaign website.

Following his ingestion of the recent research to come out exposing the bias at Google, Trump shared his recent actions in an attempt to amend the situation. 

“I called the head of Google the other day and I said, ‘I'm getting a lot of good stories lately but you don’t find them in Google, it’s a whole rigged deal,” Trump shared with Micklethwait who consequently asked, “You’d break them up, in other words?” 

Trump responded frankly, “I’d do something” leaving it open to interpretation. For some, this is reminiscent of Trump’s recent comments against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who admitted to being coerced into censoring COVID-19-related information in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee. 

In his Save America book, Trump said Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he interfered in the 2024 election the same way he did in 2020.

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