Ken Griffin: Trump's Damage to US Brand will take Lifetime to Fix

Thursday, April 24, 2025

The head of one of the world's biggest hedge funds has condemned President Trump's "nonsensical" trade war and the damage it has wreaked to the United States' brand.

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Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin donated $100 million to Republican candidates in 2024, now he's complaining that the American "brand" is being eroded.

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-- Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) April 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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"The United States was more than just a nation. It's a brand."

As if the creator of Trump Steaks and Trump University needs to be lectured to on the the value of a brand. MAGATs everywhere know a business man when they see one. Bankrupting casinos is the tell.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-24 08:41 AM

After "re-branding," post-WWII Germany and Japan were able to re-join the international community within ~20 years. Maybe America can at least begin its rehabilitation after the 2026 mid-term and 2028 presidential elections. But in 2029 the US will need a Marshall Fund to help our poor people and will be asking for lots of forgiveness from our old friends and allies. The next Democratic POTUS will rescind Trumpf's imbecilic executive orders, but will Congress repeal all of the terrible legislation from 2025-2029? How will a Democratic Congress claw back the titanic amounts of wealth siphoned off by the Trumpf junta? How many needless deaths will occur between 2025 and 2029 that a Democratic Congress can't bring back to life? This is not just an issue of re-branding, but re-construction.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-24 09:03 AM

To paraphrase, "It's the Heritage Foundation, stupid"

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-24 10:31 AM

"The United States was more than just a nation. It's a brand."

That's what they hate about the United States.
People coming from all over the world because of how good our brand is.
Brown people, Muslim people, Indian people.

America is supposed to be a White Majority Brand.
The past 80 years of increasing cultural diversity has ruined the White Majority American brand, according to Republicans.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-24 10:32 AM

It's a well known fact that everything trump is involved with is damaged or dies.

Thank maga.

#5 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-04-24 04:08 PM

He's the brain damaged doing brand damage.

The Amb to Norway was in the WH today, rolling his eyes as Trump talks about Ukraine.

btw....Eye-rolling Trump is something Trumpers should be practicing for when they give him the, "GW, who?" treatment a couple of years from now.

(unless he's the AC; then things are going to turn 'beautiful' for him pretty soon, with a treaty in the ME and the Market recovering)

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-24 04:12 PM

If you use the euro as a reference currency, [Americans] have become 20 per cent poorer in four weeks.

Bravo, stinky!

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-24 05:05 PM

Where are the usual sheep to bleat "but Biden...!"

#8 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-04-24 06:47 PM

Ken Griffin is everything wrong with America today. He has a net worth of like $50B and never produced or invented an actual product. Instead, he got wealth as a middle man in the FIRE asset inflation that has sucked the productive life out the the US economy and turned it into paper pushing only.

Democrats and Republicans alike should be united in stating that the Wall Street-ization of America has been horrible. How many MIT and Stanford grads have wasted their lives writing financial algorithms rather than inventing actual products or curing diseases? How much money has been stolen by the fund managers from their middle class investors in fees?

#9 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-24 10:32 PM

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