Trump has again so far bucked traditional Republican presidential politicking by failing to get any support from any Fortune 100 CEOs.
FILE - Elon Musk arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 13, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. ) despite years of the GOP-friendly group backing Republican presidential campaigns going back decades. Trump, who tried to woe some of them during a trip to Washington that
All of the positive economic data ... is disconnected from how people feel because people haven’t been feeling good about the economy because ... of persistent inflation. So when you keep pushing this narrative that the business community is standing with Donald Trump, it convinces people well, maybe bad news is coming.
However, they know that Donald Trump is transactional. They know that if they stand with Donald Trump now, if they’re throwing fundraisers for him and if in fact he becomes the president, they’re going to have a direct line into the Oval Office. So it’s as though they’re trying to recreate kind of Putin oligarchs here. If they help Trump now, he will take their call and give them their “Get Out of Jail Free Pass” six months from now.
Interesting from Andrew Sorkin - CEOs who were "Trump supporter-ish" and met with Trump yesterday came away concerned, because he was "remarkably meandering" and "could not keep a straight thought."Trump told the CEOs at the Business Roundtable he wants to further cut the corporate tax rate he lowered while in office.
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