Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum

Is Trump America's CEO?

Trump is taking an "unprecedented amount of control" over American businesses, edging toward what some economists call "crony capitalism."

Trump Destroys Whatever Was Left Of U.S. Corporate Oversight, Calls It “America First Antitrust”

While there was a lot to criticize the Biden administration about, it did at least try to shift the balance back toward antitrust reform (see: Lina Khan), boosting competition, and occasionally trying to help labor (see: the noncompete ban). This desperately upset America's richest assholes, which is why so many of them have rushed to…

Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum

Corporate America doesn’t want to fight with President Trump in public. But as a result, it’s ceding him an unprecedented amount of control over the shape — and future — of U.S. business.In the past week, the president has turned up the heat on big companies and their CEOs to an extent that is unprecedented even by Trump’s norms-shattering standards. He has publicly attacked companies and their executives throughout his political career — but no…

How Trump gets what he wants from companies

For years, conservative groups and corporate leaders argued that the U.S. government would be better if it were run like a business. For President Donald Trump, who has controlled his own businesses for decades, that looks like taking an increasingly active role in individual corporations’…

Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum - TPR: The Public's Radio

Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism. The post Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.