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.
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.
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 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.