It only gets attention when it is public-facing, like when CBS canceled Stephen Colbert or ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air, but one difference between Trump’s first and second terms is that corporate America is bending the knee to Donald Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported, “Industry executives have flooded the White House with so many meeting requests that sometimes top business officials meet with middle- or junior-level staff. In the first term, administration officials said that some executives wanted to stay away from Trump or meet with him privately.”
Trump has made kissing the ring the cost of doing business in America. He has attacked free markets by having the US take a financial interest in companies, and the Trump administration’s policies are all about the government picking winners and losers based on who is writing the biggest checks.
The great news is that corporations can’t survive on Trump alone. Corporate America, in our consumer-driven economy, needs constant revenue, and they get that money from all of us.
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