Large corporations facing antitrust actions would normally breathe a sigh of relief when a Republican replaced a Democrat in the White House. But, thanks to the Trump administration’s leadership, there’s no sign that the pressure is letting up for Google — and that’s great news.

On March 4, Bloomberg reported that the tech giant is begging President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to take it easy on them, citing “people familiar with the discussions.”

That strategy hasn’t been working out so well for them thus far. (RELATED:AIDEN BUZZETTI: We Need To Fix Public Schools, Not Abandon Them)

Last week, lawyers for Google and the DOJ began facing off in a Washington, D.C. court, and the DOJ is reportedly poised to make its case for breaking up the company.

The DOJ’s antitrust case against Google, which accuses the company of monopolizing the online search market, began during Trump’s first term and continued under former President Joe Biden. A few weeks after the 2024 election, a judge ruled that Google held an illegal monopoly, sending the case to the remedy phase.

Biden’s antitrust team took an aggressive approach, proposing that the court force Google to sell off Chrome (which has the highest market share of any web browser) and ban the company from paying Apple to make Google the default search engine for its Safari browser (which has the second-highest market share).

In response to the proposed remedy, Kent Walker, Google’s chief legal officer, wrote a 

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