Raw Story: 'I did not vote for a neutron bomb': Pro-Trump CEO makes major backtrack

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - 'I did not vote for a neutron bomb': Pro-Trump CEO makes major backtrack

Ailia Zehra, Alternet
April 21, 2025 1:28PM ET

Craig Fuller, the CEO of FreightWaves, a freight-focused organization that analyzes the freight and logistics market, has regretted "enthusiastically" supporting President Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election, warning that the administration's policies are likely to "wipe out supply chains and small businesses within 100 days."

"I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in," he wrote on the social platform X on Sunday.

"I thought I was voting for pro-business policies and small, targeted, and incremental tariffs that would encourage the production of strategic industries to return to the Americas," Fuller said, adding that this is what happened under Trump's previous term.

Last month, investment adviser Steve Rattner, who served as a counselor in the Treasury Department under former President Barack Obama, said many businessmen who supported Trump may come to have buyer's remorse in the months ahead.

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[RockRaven]

1. Yes you did vote for that you stupid asshole.

Cut it out with this denial of responsibility for what you did despite being warned.

[GopherGal]

7. All evidence suggests that you are not me....

but what I said aloud after reading his quote is almost exactly your subject line.

(For the record, I said "yes, you did you @#$%ing asshole" as I scrolled down to read the comments.)
So we're forced to conclude "great minds think alike"

[Orrex]

2. "I supported Trump until it became unprofitable for me to do so."

[markodochartaigh]

3. "I

did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in."


Uhhh, yeah, you did. You just didn't do your basic due diligence before you voted. Ignorance is no excuse.

[Bluethroughu]

4. Well CEO you were not listening to him.

Biden brought you the biggest economy our country has seen, the facebook memes rot your brain.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. They knew. Trump didn't keep anything secret.

They just were betting that he wasn't really serious.

And they lost the bet.

[yardwork]

10. Right?! They assumed he was lying about everything they didn't like.

And telling the truth about everything else? The reasoning of a two year old.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I think they just wouldn't believe that Trump

would actually do what he threatened to. I mean no sane person would actually do what he's done. Nobody wanted him to crash the economy. But that's what they are stuck with.

[UpInArms]

6. "Oh noes! It's eating MY face!

[Solly Mack]

8. Yeah, you did. I guess being in denial sounds better than being complicit.

[yardwork]

9. Yes you did, Blanche.

You voted for the guy who promised to do all this. On TV. Over and over.

Sounds like you didn't believe he'd do what he promised to do.

Now you look foolish. And you helped destroy the country. Good job, moron.

[The Roux Comes First]

11. A Collective Intelligence Quotient of 50 for the Whole Lot of Them

But at least it exceeds the conglomerate for the yam dna swarm.

[Ollie Garkie]

12. Imagine Samuel L Jackson's voice

Damn this face sure is a tasty motherfucker.
-the leopard

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. Blinded by those anticipated juicy tax cuts, no doubt.

Problem is, a tax cut of 5% doesn't mean much if your income drops 15% in the process, putting you in a lower bracket which is cheaper anyway, but you won't have enough income to afford that 4th summer home you so desperately need. Suffer, fools.

[Scrivener7]

14. Yes you did, asshole.

[Mountainguy]

16. These responses are entirely unhelpful

We should reward Trump supporters who speak out like this, not punish them. I get the urge to do so, but this is essentially operant conditioning at work. We want more people to turn on Trump, so we need to positively reinforce the ones that do.

[yardwork]

17. I disagree.

First, this dude doesn't read DU and doesn't care what we say.

Second, I'm not sure that immediately forgiving and forgetting the votes of people who supported Trump is a good idea.

In my experience, Trumpsters have nothing but contempt for Democrats. They don't care what we think of them. Immediately forgiving them and "welcoming them to our side" will be met with contemptuous laughter from them. They don't want to be on our side.

Maybe we need more shaming of people who vote for very selfish, evil reasons. Traditionally, human societies maintain order through social shaming.

[Mountainguy]

22. I dont think we

Should be calling voters evil for their decision either, considering how often that has been used on us as well.

And there were plenty of Trump voters who went for Biden, Clinton, Obama, etc before. They are votes Democrats can get.

[republianmushroom]

18. No, he just didn't think, one day in.

Screw you Craig.

[Aristus]

19. What a brainless dickhole this fuckwit is.

He voted for a guy who destroyed every business he ever inherited, spawned, or bought from someone else. Looks like the 'common sense' brigade didn't have the sense to see that Trump is an economic Apocalypse Now, and always has been.

I can't even with these people anymore...

[lame54]

20. How can ANYBODY...

Claim to be ilinformed about Trump

[sakabatou]

21. Bam! Leopard to the face!