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"When we were dating, people would stop him, and be like, 'You broke up with her on a Post-It!'"

But Trump, who reportedly took a phone call with Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai after he won the U.S. presidential election, has also stopped short of saying he would break up the search giant.

A scuffle ensued, but was quickly broken up by bystanders and police.

The last time the government sought to break up a tech giant, in the Microsoft antitrust case of the early 2000s, an appeals court overturned the district court’s ruling, and Microsoft remained intact.

The proposals would likely be the most significant remedies to be requested in a tech antitrust case since the Justice Department asked to break up Microsoft in 2000.