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Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it’s time to Make America into America Again

TangoNoCash

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We just hosted a large gathering of top CEOs, primarily Republicans, and you might be surprised by what we heard. While many of them have been willing to support the president out of patriotic duty—and dismay over some Democratic policies—they are increasingly questioning who truly stands to benefit from the maelstrom of chaos, fear, and confusion that he has intentionally created.


Gutless cowardice, the whole lot of them.
 
But they're not going to want to be extorted or targeted by Trump (HUGE GOVERNMENT POLITICIAN) so they will mostly stay silent and maybe try to make some changes behind the scenes.
 
I don't give a shit when Globalists start pissing and moaning about Trump's actions. Those people are the main part of the problem. They've outsourced production of their products to the detriment of American manufacturing and American workers for decades.

Screw them.
 
Cowards talk behind closed doors, then do nothing.

People of courage formulate solutions to problems behind closed doors, divide up the work, open the door then get to work.

There is no question that America is no longer the 'home of the free and the brave', but home of the cowards. I am not interested in what cowards think. I am interested in people of courage.

CaughtInThe said:
But they're not going to want to be extorted or targeted by Trump (HUGE GOVERNMENT POLITICIAN) so they will mostly stay silent and maybe try to make some changes behind the scenes.
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Ah, a roomful of Susan Collins.... (though to her credit, she may have the most courage of any elected Republican)

TangoNoCash said:
We keep saying the US is becoming a dictatorship but it would appear CEO’s have decided we are already there.
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In the journey to dictatorship, we are well into its suburbs. We have almost arrived.
 
Yes, what could go wrong?
 
Corporate America drives the economy and provides much needed jobs. They should react to political realities, not try to drive it. It's easy to plan when everything stable and orderly, but far more difficult when things are unstable and unpredictable. But that very instability fuels the change engine that can fix systemic problems that no politician have every dare touch before. Bottom lines is: These CEOs get paid the big mega bucks not to simply whine about things but rather to deal with change and navigate the future in a positive manner.
 
I dont doubt that. There are a lot of people, including myself, who question his tariff policy and the haphazard way its been handled. Big successful businesses are far more likely to wish the status quo remain in place so their opinons are not really surprising.
 
"the cost of tariffs still far exceeds the benefits provided by the Trump administration"

-Saying it like it is.
 
Even if it began working...

"Just as frustrating for CEOs is the lingering sense that this entire house of cards might collapse at any moment due to a court reversal."
 
"Trump is not acting in America’s best interests by pressuring Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. The majority said they believe the president has done lasting damage to the independence of the Federal Reserve"
 
"The gathered CEOs firmly disapproved of the president’s recent market interventions by taking equity stakes in Intel and MP Materials, requiring a revenue sharing agreement for approval of Nvidia’s and AMD’s China-sourced revenues, and mandating a golden share for authorization of the Nippon Steel takeover of a failing U.S. Steel, feeling that his actions more closely resemble those of China than the America envisioned in “Make America Great Again.”"

Ouch!

Yeah. How does an independent competitor compete against a state-sponsored business?
 
"over three-quarters of CEOs now see relations with Russia and Ukraine as worse since Trump took office. A similar proportion of executives said they thought we are at risk of losing the momentum gained in the Middle East from the Abraham Accords."

How did these supposedly top level CEOs not see this coming?
 
"When one commenter compared MAGA to the Maoist movement, there wasn’t an outcry of disagreement. Quite the opposite."
 
Peacenik said:
"Trump is not acting in America’s best interests by pressuring Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. The majority said they believe the president has done lasting damage to the independence of the Federal Reserve"
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In fairness to the FED, the rate cut was required as a result of the slowing economy (which is Trump's fault) as measure to try to keep the economy from slipping into recession, though we may be there already.

Trump has done lasting damage to all independent and quasi-independent government agencies including the DoJ, the FBI, the FCC, the CFPB, the NIH and FED.

He came to office intent on using the levers of government to crush any opposition he has. In doing so, he has weakened the guardrails that protect our democracy to the point that there no longer are guardrails.
 
He certainly hasn't helped our AG sector either. Many of the farmers who have planted crops have no markets to sell them as their markets have to other countries for their products. China is a big one that they have lost.
 
Crooks never want a powerful government to get in the way of them ripping off others. It is now clear Republicans are all in on supporting crooks.

Our government is more corrupt now than before Trump.
 
Wait. So this isn't the Golden Era?
 
You may say screw them, but the reality is they are the only people with the power to right this ship.

They're not interested today because they are making record profits. When that changes, they'll come out of the woodwork.

We all should pray it's not too late.
 
Yeah, American being closed for business just seems so Un- American.
 

They want the status quo to remain.
 
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