Top CEOs Share ‘Universal Revulsion’ to Trump

“How business leaders talk about the Trump administration in private has been markedly different than what they are game to say in public,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Early on Tuesday, dozens of corporate executives and others assembled at a Yale CEO Caucus not far from the White House just as news emerged that the Trump administration planned to potentially double tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada. Those in the room responded with a mix of groans and shocked laughter.”

Said professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: “There was universal revulsion against the Trump economic policies.”

“That sentiment wasn’t apparent hours later, when many of the same chief executives from the Yale event attended a question-and-answer session with President Trump at the Business Roundtable. There, the exchange was largely cordial and executives didn’t ask the president any pointed questions about his tariff strategy.”