Former President Barack Obama has a few choice words for businesses and institutions that caved to President Donald Trump's "deals" to end administration harassment, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.

Since taking office, Trump has made a variety of agreements and legal settlements with various entities that were subject to his wrath, as a condition of avoiding certain kinds of persecution from the administration.

He persuaded a number of law firms who represented clients who were against him to stop certain diversity hiring practices and contribute pro bono work to causes he supports; got universities where students protested against certain causes to agree to change academic policies; and strong-armed a number of media companies into exorbitant settlements of his frivolous lawsuits to grease the wheels of mergers.

Speaking to Marc Maron on the final episode of his podcast, released on Monday, Obama had a simple message for these institutions and businesses: stop caving, and start standing up for your principles.

“If you’re a university president, say, ‘Well, you know what, this’ll hurt if we lose some grant money from the federal government, but that’s what endowments are for. Let’s see if we can ride this out,’” said Obama.

“Because what we’re not going to do is compromise our basic academic independence. If you’re a business, you say, ‘You know what? We think it’s important, because of what this country stands for, to hire people from different backgrounds. We’re not going to be bullied into saying that we can only hire or promote people based on some criteria that’s been cooked up by Steve Miller.’”

Miller, one of Trump's most prominent advisers and a frequent purveyor of Nazi rhetoric, has been the architect of much of the administration's crusade against diversity programs.

Already, some of Trump's "deals" appear to be falling apart. For example, a number of law firms that signed agreements with Trump have come around to believing the deals are unenforceable and have not taken any steps to do what Trump demanded of them.