Sunday, June 23, 2024

Donald Trump Doesn't Have the Support of Corporate America

Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld: Donald Trump suffers the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.

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Real movers and shakers know they have their choice of turd polishers. He isn't necessary. When he's gone there is another lined up right behind him... and another behind that one.

Trumpanzees whole life has been about polishing the turds of the 1% because it's the only way he gets to actually hang with the innovators even though he isn't one.

#1 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-06-23 02:49 PM

He doesn't need corporate America.

He just needs the billionaires he's promised a 20% tax cut to and his deplorable trumping MAGAts.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-06-23 03:10 PM

Corporate America wants competent con artists, not incompetent ones.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-23 03:20 PM

"He doesn't need corporate America."

True dat.

And Bud Light is a CIA conspiracy anyway.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-23 03:23 PM

I can't see the op-ed behind the paywall. But I'm calling BS. Several sectors of corporate America have been in the bag for Trump since Biden was elected. The record corporate profits that have caused much of the inflation Biden has been blamed for didn't happen because they dislike Trumps economic policy.

#5 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-06-23 05:25 PM

#5
... much of the inflation Biden has been blamed for didn't happen when Trump was in office

#6 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 09:15 AM

#6

Thanks for making my point. Corporate America certainly wouldn't want to make Trump look bad. He's the one who is promising them another huge tax break.

#7 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-06-24 11:02 AM

"Donald Trump suffers the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party."

But, he does have the full 100% support of the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrel's Union.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-24 11:13 AM

Wow, it's hilarious to see how much liberals can't even see their own hypocrisy. Corporate America is the devil according to libs for decades and not one person can argue that statement. But, now they like them because they have their support. And, we've already seen the billions liberals horde from their rich to spend on lobbying and how much they regulate to ensure the working class suffers...and then try to tell people they are the ones for the working people.

If liberals didn't have hypocrisy, they wouldn't have a platform.

#9 | Posted by humtake at 2024-06-24 11:32 AM

"Corporate America is the devil according to libs"

The news here, is that The Devil is not supporting the Republican candidate for President, according to The Devil.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 11:36 AM

A viral blog post from a bureaucrat exposes why tech billionaires fear Biden " and fund Trump

#11 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-06-24 11:49 AM

If liberals didn't have hypocrisy, they wouldn't have a platform.

#9 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

If you couldn't repeat / spread maga lies and misinformation you'd have nothing to offer.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-24 01:38 PM

Thanks for making my point. Corporate America certainly wouldn't want to make Trump look bad. He's the one who is promising them another huge tax break.

#7 | Posted by Whatsleft

...your hand closed on a jelly-like
slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next
moment collected again.

'If the Fed has raised rates so steeply, why is the inflation rate not come down? Why is it not back to the two percent or under two percent target?'"

"And the answer is that it's because the government is spending wildly
, like so incredibly irresponsibly, that it's causing what we're calling fiscal dominance, meaning fiscal spending is dominating the Fed's attempt to tackle inflation by raising rates. And so you're seeing pockets of recession and people are feeling it.

#13 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 04:27 PM

"And so you're seeing pockets of recession and people are feeling it."

"Pockets" is one way to describe it.

Here's another way:

Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 04:34 PM

"the answer is that it's because the government is spending wildly"

D'you think the Trump Tax Code pumping an extra $2.3 Trillion of newly borrowed money into the economy had anything to do with that?

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-24 04:36 PM

#13 If you are going to simp for people, you really out to provide a link!

Quoting from your boy:

"Treasuries were considered riskless because in the last 15 years, they were riskless."

Past performance is no guaranteed of future results.

The past 15 years, when Treasuries were riskless, coincides with massive Federal QE.

So now you're crying because the government isn't spending enough.

You're an idiot.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 04:39 PM

Related...

C.E.O.s Are Frustrated. That Doesn't Mean They Embrace Trump.
www.nytimes.com

... When the White House chief of staff, Jeffrey Zients, met with dozens of top executives in Washington this month, he encountered a familiar list of corporate complaints about President Biden.

The executives at the Business Roundtable, a group representing some of the country's biggest corporations, objected to Mr. Biden's proposals to raise taxes. They questioned the lack of business representation in the Cabinet. They bristled at what they called overregulation by federal agencies.

While the meeting was not antagonistic, it was indicative of three and a half years of executive grousing about Mr. Biden. Business leaders have criticized his remarks on "corporate greed" and his appearance on a union picket line. They chafe at the actions of officials he has appointed " particularly the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, who has moved to block a series of corporate mergers.

A number of prominent figures in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street " including the venture capitalists David Sacks and Marc Andreessen, and the hedge fund magnate Kenneth Griffin " have grown increasingly vocal in their criticism of Mr. Biden, their praise of former President Donald J. Trump, or both.

Still, that shift mostly reflects movement among executives who already supported Republican politicians but had not previously embraced Mr. Trump. There is little evidence of a major shift in allegiance among executives away from Mr. Biden and toward Mr. Trump. ...



#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-24 04:39 PM

And, we've already seen the billions liberals horde from their rich to spend on lobbying and how much they regulate to ensure the working class suffers...and then try to tell people they are the ones for the working people.

If liberals didn't have hypocrisy, they wouldn't have a platform.

#9 | Posted by humtake

Your cult leader told you he'd drain the swamp. Then he filled his white house with bankers and lobbyists.

You got conned sucker.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 04:47 PM

You can't blame Biden's inflation on Trump.

#19 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 04:55 PM

"You can't blame Biden's inflation on Trump."

That's nothing.
You can't even blame Trump's inflation on Trump!

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 04:55 PM

Daddysfist is especially proud of the orange pedo's 15% unemployment rate.

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-06-24 04:56 PM

#19 | POSTED BY LOOK_INWARD

Damn you dumb and lazy. LOL

#22 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-06-24 04:59 PM

Joe Biden : It's hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president, I'll do my job and take responsibility. I won't blame others.

Biden owns inflation: He bought it with massive spending and Americans are paying for it economically. Now, Biden's afraid he will have to pay for it politically.

Biden recently let fly at grocery stores for "ripping people off." He started by noting that "inflation is coming down" and is "now lower in America than any other major economy in the world."

#23 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 05:03 PM

You can't blame Biden's inflation on Trump.

#19 | Posted by look_inward

Yet somehow you can blame worldwide inflation on biden.

#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 05:03 PM

Biden recently let fly at grocery stores for "ripping people off." He started by noting that "inflation is coming down" and is "now lower in America than any other major economy in the world."

#23 | Posted by look_inward

If corporations are making record profits what does that tell you about their prices?

#25 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 05:04 PM

Most corporations lost a buttload of money during the covid pandemic and it looks like most of them have concluded based on Independent research that Trump was to blame for how bad it got.

#26 | Posted by Tor at 2024-06-24 05:12 PM

Yet somehow you can blame worldwide inflation on biden.
Er, no I did-unt

You guys are thrashing comically

#27 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 05:19 PM

Why can't you just wait until Trump is again president, and blame him then. You know. When he's in charge and therefore responsible.

Joe Biden on X: "Here's my promise to you
X JoeBiden
204.5K+ likes 3 years ago
Here's my promise to you: If I'm elected president, I will always choose to unite rather than divide. I'll take responsibility instead of ...

Biden had me sold on his "taking responsibility" rhetoric. I thought it would be refreshing to have a leader who would focus on solving problems instead of trying to squirm away from responsibility.
I see now, though, that he was just telling me a lie to get elected.

#28 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 05:31 PM

"You can't blame Biden's inflation on Trump."

Trump pushed for $2.3 Trillion in new borrowing, another $5 Trillion of debt, was responsible for at least another $3 Trillion in stimulus, and had promised to give out more stimulus than Biden eventually did.

You're blaming Trump's inflation on Biden.

#29 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-24 05:37 PM

"I thought it would be refreshing to have a leader who would focus on solving problems"

The Biden Administration and the Republicans agreed on a border deal, admittedly better than Republicans would be able to get under Trump, due to cloture rules.

Trump told Republicans to walk away from the deal. In my world, the folks who unilaterally walk away from the agreed deal, are responsible for the fallout. It's not unfair to say Republicans are responsible for what's going on at the border.

Now...what were you saying about a leader who would focus on solving problems?

#30 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-24 05:42 PM

"Biden had me sold on his "taking responsibility" rhetoric."

And on that topic, Trump bests Biden in taking responsibility?!? In what bizarro world?

FFS, Trump hasn't even taken responsibility for the last time around. Or anything since.

#31 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-24 05:48 PM

You guys are thrashing comically

#27 | Posted by look_inward

Blaming worldwide inflation on one person is your thrashing response to republicans becoming the cult of a con man whose coup failed on live tv.

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 05:53 PM

Biden had me sold on his "taking responsibility" rhetoric. I thought it would be refreshing to have a leader who would focus on solving problems instead of trying to squirm away from responsibility.
I see now, though, that he was just telling me a lie to get elected.

#28 | Posted by look_inward

If that sort of thing bothered you there's no way you'd be voting for trump.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 05:54 PM

"Biden owns inflation"

You own a Bazooka Joe comic.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 05:55 PM

"Biden recently let fly at grocery stores for "ripping people off.""

Yeah, but that's only because it's been proven grocery and other stores have been "ripping people off".
www.epi.org

#35 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-24 05:57 PM

They have to put "ripping people off" in quotes, because they don't believe ripping people off is a thing that can actually happen in the free market.

I'll make their argument for them:
If you paid the agreed upon price, how exactly did you get "ripped off?"

To them, there is one thing and one thing only that causes inflation, and it's Democrat Presidents.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 05:59 PM

The Biden Administration and the Republicans agreed on a border deal, admittedly better than Republicans would be able to get under Trump, due to cloture rules.

Not really. Biden undid the controls attempted by Trump EOs, which were the last controls working at all.

Democrats enabled unlimited third-world migration in attempt to change the demographic because they imagine this would mean permanent power status. Time will tell if they estimated correctly.

#37 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 06:00 PM

They have to put "ripping people off" in quotes, because that's what he said

#38 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 06:02 PM

If you paid the agreed upon price, how exactly did you get "ripped off?"

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 06:03 PM

there's no way you'd be voting for trump.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

You win! That's the only valid observation you guys have flung today.

#40 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 06:05 PM

If you paid the agreed upon price, how exactly did you get "ripped off?"

#39 | Posted by snoofy

Good question to ask Joe.

#41 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-24 06:07 PM

"Biden undid the controls attempted by Trump EOs, which were the last controls working at all."

The first part sounds right, the second part sounds like Republicans in Congress and the Republican President deliberately didn't change the law and instead relied on EOs.

Your claim is Trump knew legislative controls weren't working, yet there was no new legislation to address that failure.

"Democrats enabled unlimited third-world migration."

Unlimited. That sounds like a lot! How much of an actual change in migration did we see?

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 06:08 PM

If you paid the agreed upon price, how exactly did you get "ripped off?"
#39 | Posted by snoofy
Good question to ask Joe.
#41 | POSTED BY LOOK_INWARD

So you can't answer.
Thanks for demonstrating my point, I guess.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 06:09 PM

there's no way you'd be voting for trump.
#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

You win!
#40 | POSTED BY LOOK_INWARD

I want to go for double!
Is the reason you can't vote a felony conviction?

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 06:11 PM

This Jeffrey Sonnenfeld? Nice career recovery.

observer.com

#45 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-06-24 06:16 PM

look inward is voting for trump with rfk jr.

#46 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-06-24 06:22 PM

Because Republicans can't ideologically accept that inflation is a result of price gouging,

They are left with cutting government spending as the only remedy.

Of course, cutting government spending is the remedy to almost every problem Republicans see, except for the problems they exacerbate with wars and prisons and pollution.

Some of you really understand the extent of it when I say, The GOP Is A Death Cult.

Trump and MAGA is pretty much everything that's wrong with America, and the world,

In nesting doll of moneyed interests that can thrive in a society characterized by wars, prisons, and pollution.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-24 06:28 PM

You win! That's the only valid observation you guys have flung today.

#40 | Posted by look_inward

Oh look our latest anonymous enlightened genius declaring himself too principled to vote for the far lesser evil, thus helping the far greater evil take power.

#48 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 06:34 PM

- "Biden owns inflation"

Dark Brandon owns the best post-Covid economic recovery in the World.

look_like_you_are_in_mental_ward notwithstanding.

#49 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-24 06:38 PM

@#29 ... Trump pushed for $2.3 Trillion in new borrowing, another $5 Trillion of debt, was responsible for at least another $3 Trillion in stimulus, and had promised to give out more stimulus than Biden eventually did.

You're blaming Trump's inflation on Biden. ...

Ya need to stop replying to that current alias with facts. /s

It is obvious that it is not concerned about facts, but only concerned about echoing the MAGA cult alternate universe mantra.



#50 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-24 06:46 PM

"it is not concerned about facts"

Especially Actual Math.

#51 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-24 06:53 PM

It's not that Trump lacks the support of corporate America. It is that Trump lacks the support of intelligent people. And love them or hate them, corporate America is intelligent about their own financial interests.

#52 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-06-24 07:04 PM

If this was the other way around, you fkkers would be changing the oil and spark plugs in your ---------.

#53 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-06-24 08:11 PM

Isn't this a good thing?

#54 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-06-24 08:16 PM

It is that Trump lacks the support of intelligent people.

LOL Intelligent people were in the Hitler Youth.

#55 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-06-24 08:17 PM

You're blaming Trump's inflation on Biden. ...

I have stated this numerous times, this is a government spending, inflation problem.

But I bet you were claiming inflation was transitory before this gem.

#56 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-06-24 08:19 PM


Trump pushed for $2.3 Trillion in new borrowing, another $5 Trillion of debt, was responsible for at least another $3 Trillion in stimulus, and had promised to give out more stimulus than Biden eventually did.

Yea COVID and Congress had nothing to do with that. *SMH*. Not even an American and I know how your system works better than you.

#57 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-06-24 08:20 PM

57

You've proved here repeatedly that you don't know Jack ---- about much of anything at all.

And on a daily basis, too, so that does show consistency.

#58 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-24 08:24 PM

I don't take responsibility at all'

This is what the smelly------------- said when the US had 25% of the world's covid deaths.

#59 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-06-24 08:27 PM

If this was the other way around, you fkkers would be changing the oil and spark plugs in your ---------.

#53 | Posted by lfthndthrds

For it to be the other way around, democrats would have to have attempted a coup.

#60 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-24 08:29 PM

9 ... Yea COVID and Congress had nothing to do with that. *SMH*. Not even an American and I know how your system works better than you. ...

Got anything (links?) to substantiate your current alias' assertion?

Or are we just having to breathe in analpore methane?



#61 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-24 08:37 PM

I guess the bots find "--------" offensive.

#62 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-06-24 09:07 PM

@#61

Oops, I messed up the back-tag.

My comment was a reply to #57.


#63 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-24 09:23 PM

They'll vote for him once it becomes clearer that their taxes will be lower with him than with the democrats. If Trump wins expect the austerity cuts that England pushed when Cameron was their prime minister.

#64 | Posted by danS at 2024-06-24 11:08 PM

@#64 ... They'll vote for him once it becomes clearer that their taxes will be lower with him than with the democrats. ...

Two comments:

1) who are the "they" you refer to?

2) yet another zombie alias comes to life.



#65 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-24 11:14 PM

That's because Corporatists are all Libs now and big business has been the friend of the Democrat Party since Obama took office. It's almost as though you guys either don't want to acknowledge this as the truth or your puppet masters have played you for idiots (which is more embarrassing).

#66 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-06-24 11:38 PM

@#66 ... That's because Corporatists are all Libs now ...

Got any links to substantiate that assertion, or is your current alias just, as it seems to do, just venting noxious gases out of its analpore and posting that miasma as facts?


#67 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-24 11:43 PM

My claim is as valid as when Democrats make the claim the party's switched and you guys didn't found the Klan or oppose civil rights. The Republican Party is that of the working man and woman these days.

#68 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-06-25 12:31 AM

@#68 ... My claim is as valid as when ...

So, your current alias has nothing to substantiate what it has asserted..

Thanks for that implicit admission.


#69 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-25 12:47 AM

I have stated this numerous times, this is a government spending, inflation problem.
#56 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You keep lying and trying to deceive, yes we understand that about you.

You are one of those who says all inflation is born of government spending, and thus the only remedy for inflation is cutting government spending.

How much inflation did Operation Warp Speed create?
How much inflation did PPP loans create?
You can't answer because your premise is a lie.

#70 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-25 10:56 AM

That's because Corporatists are all Libs now and big business has been the friend of the Democrat Party since Obama took office. It's almost as though you guys either don't want to acknowledge this as the truth or your puppet masters have played you for idiots (which is more embarrassing).

#66 | Posted by Bluewaffles

So how come trump filled his white house with bankers and lobbyists?

#71 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-25 12:07 PM

Look Dimward is just another MAGAT dupe.

#72 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-06-25 12:45 PM

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