The CEO Suck-Ups to Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "Stephen Miller, Trump's incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, told Fox News that Zuckerberg "has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this change we're seeing all around America and the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.
71% : Because he thought Trump had a good chance of becoming president, and Dimon wanted to be in his good graces.
60% : "Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner [Zuckerberg sought it] and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming administration.
58% : Also, Dimon's support for Nikki Haley had irked Trump.
57% : During the campaign, he had several private phone calls with Trump.
54% : "President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead," Altman says.
51% : Trump wanted the U.S. to withdraw from the pact -- and may get his way after January 20.
50% : Trump "was kind of right about NATO, kind of right on immigration.
46% : After Trump was shot at a campaign event, Bezos called him, and on social media he praised Trump's "grace and courage under literal fire.
46% : And my point of view is, if I can help him do that, I'm going to help him, because we do have too much regulation in this country.
46% : Trump is getting nothing but fawning encouragement to do anything he wants to do.
44% : Amazon's founder and chief, Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, had a rocky relationship with Trump during the first Trump administration.
42% : Angry with Bezos over unfavorable reporting in the Post, Trump questioned whether Amazon got a sweetheart deal with the U.S. Postal Service.
42% : Trump refused to grant legal status to children of immigrants born in the United States or who grew up here and tried to ban Muslims from the U.S.Grew the economy quite well?
37% : In a post on Truth Social in late November, Trump said "Highly overrated Globalist Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMORGAN, is quietly pushing another non-MAGA person, Nikki Haley, for President," and "I've never been a big Jamie Dimon fan, but had to live with this guy when he came begging to the White House.
32% : Now, Bezos says he's "very optimistic" about the incoming Trump administration, and that Trump "seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation.
32% : Even the conservative Cato Institute found that Trump reduced legal immigration but not illegal immigration.
30% : After the insurrection unleashed by Trump against the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, many CEOs announced they wouldn't be financing the campaigns of election deniers.
29% : Within three years, prominent social media were allowing Trump to return to their platforms and retell his lies.
29% : The CEOs are all sucking up to Trump.
28% : The international trade deficit that Trump promised to reduce increased.
21% : In fact, under Trump the economy lost 2.9 million jobs.
20% : Anyone recall the time in the late summer of 2017 when prominent CEOs resigned from Trump's business councils in protest at his defense of white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, after Trump called them "very fine people"?At the time, I thought America's CEOs might become a bulwark against Trump's extremism.
19% : CEOs of prominent social media banned Trump from appearing.
17% : Amazon, in turn, accused Trump of improperly pressuring the Pentagon to deny the company a major cloud computing contract.
15% : Why did Dimon -- the most influential CEO in America -- spout these lies in favor of Trump?
14% : "In his first administration, Trump accused Facebook of filtering out views favorable to him.
12% : I confess to having had a moment's thought during the last eight months that Trump's conviction on 34 criminal counts in Manhattan, his civil conviction for defamation in connection with what a judge termed "rape," and his disgraceful nativism -- describing poorer nations as "shit holes," using terms redolent of Nazism to describe foreigners as "poisoning the blood" of Americans, and baselessly accusing Haitian immigrants as "eating our pets" -- might force CEOs to rethink their willingness to give Trump a pass.
9% : After the assassination attempt, Zuckerberg told Trump he was "praying" for him and told an interviewer Trump looked like a "badass" after pumping his fist to the crowd.

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