This is madness
Asking Google to sell off Chrome is stupid. Stopping them from getting that monopoly made sense, but that ship has sailed - and regulators did fuck-all. Even when Google were distributing it like malware and using their search monopoly.
Regulators need to be realistic. Chrome doesn't make any money directly. If it's really worth the insanity of $50bn (which it isn't) then that's because someone else is planning to use it to build a monopoly. Using this "remedy" just creates another problem in the immediate future. Plus, what insane message does it send, if government regulators are selling on a couple of billion users, and their data, off to someother company? Finally this could create a massive regulatory bunfight? What if the US regulator approves a sale of Chrome to someone, and then the EU regulator pops up and nixes that on competition grounds?
For Trump, it's surely much better to keep Google sweating, to keep them quiet and compliant. Putting in more donations to his pet projects. Once he makes them his enemy outright, then the gloves come off, and they can fully help the other side. Better to keep the sword of Damocles hanging over their head for the next few years, surely?
Personally I think the author might have read this wrong anyway. Why should Google sell it? If it's really worth that cash, it's worth it to a competitor who might become a threat to Google. So why should Google not just win some browny points by giving it away for free - to say the Linux foundation? On the lines of, if I can't control it - then nobody else can have it either.