Tuesday, September 23, 2025

71% of CEOs Say Trump Has Harmed Their Businesses

Seventy executives who attended a CEO Caucus convened by the Yale School of Management in Washington, D.C., last week were surveyed about White House policies -- from tariffs to the Federal Reserve to health care. ... 71% of the CEOs said tariffs were harmful to their businesses. 74% said that the courts were correct to find that the Trump's tariffs are illegal as executed. 80% said that the president was not acting in the country's best interest by pressuring Fed chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates.

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71% of the CEOs said tariffs were harmful to their businesses. 74% said that the courts were correct to find that the Trump's tariffs are illegal as executed. 80% said that the president was not acting in the country's best interest by pressuring Fed chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. 76% said that Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is putting U.S. public health at risk.

Putin couldn't have picked a better delivery system to destroy the US than the bankruptcy-prone------------.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-23 12:37 AM

#1: Putin couldn't have picked a better delivery system to destroy the US than the bankruptcy-prone------------.

The US designed the 'Neutron Bomb' to kill massive numbers of people with lethal radiation, but leave the enemy infrastructure intact. Ergo, Dummkopf Trumpf is Putin's perfect WMD delivery system: A neutron bomb: www.usatoday.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-23 02:11 AM

Dummkopf Trumpf: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things:" x.com

This is in the same ballpark as Adolf Hitler muttering: "Gott in Himmel, I really am quite the antisemite, aren't I?"

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-23 04:34 AM

Sure. That was his goal.

But, he gave them more massive tax cuts and then tax cuts for themselves and that is all that matters.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-23 07:21 AM

"All those liberal billionaires and millionaires..."
-MAGAt Pedo Idiots

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-23 07:24 PM

Now we care what pain these CEOs are experiencing?

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-23 08:00 PM

Their employees are experience worse, pretty obviously.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-23 08:03 PM

Wait I thought Trump was giving the CEOs a bunch of tax breaks at the expense of everybody else?

#8 | Posted by sir_vicks at 2025-09-23 08:05 PM

These greedy ------ screw the employees anyway.

Nice to see some empathy for these bastards. Taking them at their word and shedding a tear.

LOL

Remember ... ..these CEOs knew what farmers knew ... ... and they supported Trump anyway.

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-23 08:06 PM

They KNEW this was going to happen. Between the tariffs and the loss of most of their immigrant workers, they are claiming they will be bankrupt by this time next year.

And I cheer it on.

It's time these ----- got to the Find Out stage.

POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-09-23 07:27 PM | REPLY

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-23 08:16 PM

"I thought Trump was giving the CEOs a bunch of tax breaks at the expense of everybody else?"

He is.

He's also ruining their businesses with bad trade deals and terrible economic management.

Two things can be true at once.

#11 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-23 09:25 PM

For some of the morons above.... It doesn't say that the CEOs are hurting. It says the businesses are hurting. In the long run, that will hurt employees and shareholders. Not the CEOs.

#12 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-24 07:52 AM

#12: americansfortaxfairness.org

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-24 08:21 AM

For the specific moron above........If businesses truly suffer, then the CEO is likely to suffer along with it as a significant shareholder.

and "suffer" is a relative term. Meaning if the company is worth less, then the CEO is impacted.

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-24 09:19 AM

www.forbes.com

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-24 09:28 AM

www.equilar.com

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-24 09:34 AM

They KNEW this was going to happen. Between the tariffs and the loss of most of their immigrant workers, they are claiming they will be bankrupt by this time next year.
And I cheer it on.
It's time these ----- got to the Find Out stage.
POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-09-23 07:27 PM | REPLY
#10 | Posted by eberly

It is nice seeing you quote an expert and a genius.

I'm very proud of you.

#17 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-24 10:25 AM

CEO is likely to suffer

I don't call what happens to any CEO (other than United Healthcare) suffering.

Golden parachute and then will latch onto another CEO job at some other company.

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-24 10:41 AM

Remember ... ..these CEOs knew what farmers knew ... ... and they supported Trump anyway.

#9 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Like the farmers, they voted with the expectation that they either wouldn't be affected or they'd get preferential bailouts.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-24 06:59 PM

-Like the farmers, they voted with the expectation that they either wouldn't be affected or they'd get preferential bailouts.

That's a reasonable expectation

Or, like everyone else, they think they can spot where Trump is lying and where he's not.

On this issue ... maybe they didn't take him seriously

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-24 07:07 PM

-It is nice seeing you quote an expert and a genius.

What else would you expect from me?

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-24 07:08 PM

@#19 ... Like the farmers, they voted with the expectation that they either wouldn't be affected or they'd get preferential bailouts. ...

Yeah, and also, like the farmers, they apparently did not listen to what then candidate Trump was saying.

Stated differently, why does someone vote for a candidate who, in his campaigns, seems to actively campaign against what you want?

So, they seem to be admitting that they were fools to jump upon the Trump bandwagon, in spite of all the warnings being proffered at the time.

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-24 07:27 PM

" Stated differently, why does someone vote for a candidate who, in his campaigns, seems to actively campaign against what you want?"

His voters were so used to him lying, they thought he was lying this time, too.

#23 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-24 09:18 PM

-It is nice seeing you quote an expert and a genius.
What else would you expect from me?
#21 | Posted by eberly

I've always held you in decent regard.

You have your good days and you have your "WTF is he smoking days?"

But you aren't one of the idiot MAGAt 4Chan meme posters.

#24 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-25 01:23 AM

@#23 ... His voters were so used to him lying, they thought he was lying this time, too. ...

Seems to be the case here in this instance.


#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-25 02:38 AM

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