CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’
CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’
Trump offered scant details on how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two people in the room.
Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two other people in the room who spoke to CNBC.
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The same CEOs who were struck by Trump’s lack of focus “walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction,” Sorkin reported.
“These were people who I think might have been actually predisposed to [Trump but] actually walked out of the room less predisposed” to him, Sorkin said.
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“At one point, he discussed his plan to bring the corporate tax rate down from 21% to 20% … and was asked about why he had chosen 20%,” Sorkin said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And he said, ‘Well, it’s a round number.’”
“That unto itself had a number of CEOs shaking their heads,” Sorkin reported.
these fucking ‘geniuses’ needed to be in a room with this moron to determine he’s a moron?
They aren't geniuses they are just rich. They usually don't go together
clearly that's what the scare quotes were for
And yet they back him.
If hiring a convicted felon, rapist, failed businessman, dementia patient means they'll end up with a bigger yacht to take them to Epstein's private island, then yes. CEOs will gladly back him.
I have a feeling that they will, just to make an extra buck for themselves.
They think they can manipulate him. Anyone voting for him either thinks that ( or can profit off it), is deeply uneducated, or truly believes that he is the next Messiah.
On the one hand there is the prospect of electing a clown they can control and use to get another tax break and other business friendly policies, like unlimited pollution, and on the other hand there's a chance he will lead his christofascist cult members on a jihad to destroy democracy, and maybe civilization itself, which would put a pretty big dent in their profit margins. What to do, what to do....
They basically get the status quo with Biden. I think this may actually signal a turning point for at least some of them.
The reliable thing they hate vs the wildcat gamble? Okay, excellent viewpoint as usual.
the status quo is fucking amazing for billionaires. why would they want to tamper with that
Trump needs a glass of warm milk and a nap in a jail cell, not to be running for president.
They are all going to donate to him and vote for him, what is this bullshit
They view him as a useful idiot. They think they'll be able to control him, but they should have realized by now that's not possible. He's like a windup toy. You can send him in a direction, but he may drift off course or someone else might redirect him.
AI generated article. Just white noise to fill the space in between Gaza genocides and climate change collapse.
IKR 😞
He’s so old, why do they keep making trump run?
He's easy to manipulate and ideological committed to doing fascism on a national scale.
But it's not like they didn't try to run other people. DeSantis, Cruz, Hailey, Christie - they all ended up eating shit.
Winning is kind of his only chance to avoid the consequences for a lifetime of breaking the rules.
Sometimes kids have backbone?
Also, if we believe the GoP has some magical pee-party leverage over Mr Trump, then he represents a special kind of provably-shameless monkey for them to push around.
Their golden goose may be doddering, decrepit and rambling, but if he's still making eggs then he's valuable as-is.
No other want's the job? Or it's better to stay 2nd row and whisper stupid things to front row?
That doesn't stop his believers. You know, like some former pope who couldn't even really talk anymore?
So he's doing 'the Elon'?
Both - DJT and EM - want's AI. Or an excuse for the shitty output - for both human idiocracy and artificial intelligence. Honey, where's my pitchfork?