US President Donald Trump responded to the European Commission's antitrust fine of Google by threatening to "nullify the unfair penalties" in a Truth Social post on Friday.

On Friday afternoon, the European Commission announced a €2.95 billion fine against US tech giant Google for violating its competition laws in the digital ads market – an investigation the EU had open since 2021.

Trump criticised the decision in a post on Truth Social on Friday and said that "my Administration will NOT allow these discriminatory actions to stand," referring to the fine.

The fine was "effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American investment and jobs," he asserted.

Trump threatened to "start a Section 301" in response to the Commission announcement, referring to US trade laws that c

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