The CEO Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Trump
"Apple, Intel, Nvidia and other companies have reversed the president’s opposition by giving him a hefty prize, along with bragging rights.
Takeaways by Bloomberg AI
Donald Trump exhibits no inhibition in sharing his thoughts and desires publicly, including his craving for prizes and gifts, such as the Nobel Peace Prize.
CEOs of prominent corporations, including Tim Cook and Lip-Bu Tan, have succeeded in securing favorable treatment from the US government by giving Trump gifts or opportunities to claim victories, such as a glass Apple logo set atop a 24-karat gold base.
Trump's deals with CEOs are often made in haste and appear to be based on personal relationships and whims rather than a consistent policy, with some experts questioning the potential benefits of these investments for the economy and the American people.
Donald Trump calls himself the most transparent president in history. And in some ways he’s right. Where many of us would be mortified if the world could eavesdrop on our internal monologues—all of our personal complaints, desires, jealousies and grievances publicly laid bare—Trump exhibits no such inhibition. His daily torrent of Truth Social posts and the hours he spends before the cameras each week saying whatever comes to mind offer everyone an unredacted transcript of a president’s conversations with himself.
Among the things Trump doesn’t hide is his desire to be awarded prizes and gifts. He’s open about his craving for the Nobel Peace Prize and his vexation that Barack Obama has one and he doesn’t. He posts effusive self-congratulations after being declared the winner of tournaments held at his own golf clubs. “It’s good to win,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One after an April championship at his course in Jupiter, Florida, one of six trophies he’s claimed this year. “You heard I won? Did you hear I won? Just to back it up there, I won.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/ceos-from-apple-and-nvidia-to-us-steel-win-over-trump-with-trophies
All the U.S. has become under this degenerate in the white house is a country based on graft, corrpution, and lies, with the rethugs, corporations, and media more than willing accomplices to this corruption.
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