Inside the Room Where CEOs Say What They Really Think of Trump's Policies

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Inside the Room Where CEOs Say What They Really Think of Trump’s Policies
America’s top executives worry about moves that many see as state capitalism and pressure on the Federal Reserve

By Chip Cutter
Updated Sept. 17, 2025 9:55 pm ET

WASHINGTON—Corporate leaders regularly praise the Trump administration and its policies in public. Behind closed doors, their mood is darker.

At a meeting of CEOs and other executives on Wednesday convened by the Yale School of Management, dozens of America’s business leaders sounded off on their concerns about tariffs, immigration, foreign policy matters and what many described as an increasingly chaotic, hard-to-navigate business environment.

“They’re being extorted and bullied individually, but in private discourse, they’re really upset,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who organized the event, referring to recent deals that give the U.S. government a cut of certain Nvidia chip sales and a “golden share” in U.S. Steel.

The meeting included prominent corporate executives such as Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown, who also received an award for leadership; Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel; and Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari. Other attendees included the heads of major manufacturers, consumer brands, automakers, technology companies and investment firms. Many who shared their concerns Wednesday in the confines of a private conference room didn’t want to speak publicly for fear that their companies could be targeted by the administration or that they could attract criticism from Trump.
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❤️ RESIST!! ✊️

[OLDMDDEM]

1. They are all wimps.

[BoRaGard]

2. You know the repubes had a mole in the room

to take down names and addresses,
so they can be persecuted by Krasnov (r - felon/golfcheat/rapist)

[BOSSHOG]

3. Targeted by the administration?

Attract criticism? So just keep driving off the cliff to wreck and ruin? Why worry about “the moves” when you plan to do nothing about them? Any regrets about your corporate selfishness? Did anyone in any corporate boardroom not see this coming?

[CanonRay]

4. If people like this were running the country in 1776

We'd still be British.

[Hekate]

5. They are all afflicted with cowardice

The Fool: “I didn’t want to be here! “
Nanny Ogg, village witch: “I’ll remember that. “

[GusBob]

6. Blind fools all

Its all chaos, all the time now

And forget tariffs, with the admins' attacks on health care and education, China is gonna wipe their companies off the planet

[Prairie Gates]

7. Who gives a shit...these people are weaker than anybody because they actually have leverage

and fuck you money.

The "CEOs" have exposed themselves for what they are: the neighborhood blowhards who were always going to knuckle under to the schoolyard bully. These shitheads can buy al the yachts and take all the MMA classes they want: they are still weaklings. They ain't built for it.

Who cares what they say in private? Fuck them. If we are ever de-MAGAfied, the next Dem president has to take an absolutely hard line on the corporations and the churches. They have all proven themselves not just useless, but actively harmful to society.