Trump Calls for the Firing of Microsoft’s Lisa Monaco

President Donald Trump called for the firing of Microsoft’s president of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, on Friday.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump called Monaco a “menace to US National Security” due to Microsoft’s government contracts and said her government security clearances were recently revoked.

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” the president said in a post on Truth Social. “Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT.”

Monaco served as deputy attorney general in the Biden administration and as homeland security advisor in the Obama administration. According to her LinkedIn profile, she started her position as the head of Global Affairs at Microsoft in July.

On Thursday, Microsoft wrote in an email to employees that it had cut off certain cloud and AI services to a division of Israel’s Ministry of Defense, following employee protests and an internal probe into reports that Israel built a system to track Palestinians’ phone calls.

In the publicly available blog post published Thursday, Microsoft reiterated its principles that it does not provide technology to “facilitate mass surveillance of civilians ” and that it would “respect and protect the privacy rights of our customers.”

According to a statement on the US General Services Administration website, earlier in September, Microsoft agreed to offer around $3.1 billion in savings over one year on cloud services used by government agencies.

Several weeks ago, Trump hosted tech CEOs, including current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft cofounder and former CEO Bill Gates, at a White House dinner. Nadella thanked Trump and praised his leadership.

“I think that everything that you’re doing in terms of setting in place the platform where the rest of the world can not only use our technology, but trust our technology more than any other alternative is perhaps the most important issue, and you, and you and your policies are really helping a lot,” Nadella said. “So thank you very much.”

Microsoft declined to comment when reached by Business Insider.