UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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Uh-oh, what he done did?
and job uncertainty. I've been stop spending money and honkey, chonk, and kike owned spots. They all need to miss mortgage payment and find a spot at the shelter due to economic harship.
He called Trump the "greatest President" and said he wasn't appreciated during his first term.
He doesn't cover the people who voted but their votes weren't counted for whatever reason. Greg Palast talks about this.
Tesla sales are down by 45% in the UK and by 50% in the EU 2025 going to be magnificent for Ketamine Karen !
This was great.
Yeah, this is unfortunate. There are many sectors of NOAA, so this will be an ugly looking process over the next few weeks.
The administration is wanting to privatize the NOAA's data. Operations will likely not be interrupted because the private sector still needs NOAA's data. The Weather Channel, AccuWeather, federal contracting companies, or related entities rely heavily on NOAA's data for their existence.
No doubt, my career is at risk. But I'll figure something out. I'm shifting into pure data science and machine learning since I have private industry experience. I will take online courses to build my machine learning skill sets. I'm not going to sit and wait for this shit to hit me. I see it coming, so I will be prepared as best as possible.
....Kamala and Obama too. These MFs are obsessed with Obama still.Biden will get the blame...
American business leaders are turning on Trump — fast
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“A difficult time to invest.”
“Everybody’s paralyzed.”
“I’m sorry I can’t be particularly positive.”
“The chaos that is reigning right now is causing everyone to sit on their hands.”
That’s Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, ON Semiconductor CEO Hassane El-Khoury, Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, and Nasdaq Private Market CEO Tom Callahan on the world of Donald Trump right now. Their comments over the past week capture a growing disquiet among business leaders, a month into a presidency that many of them had cheered.
“What decision do you make? Do you want to go left or right?” El-Khoury told Semafor in an interview this week. “Are we going to grow the business? Well, I don’t know. Are there tariffs or not?” (Since that interview, Trump threatened to double his own proposed 10% tariffs on China and put a 25% levy on European goods.)
CEO optimism is fading as Trump pushes ahead with trade restrictions, while business-friendly deregulation has yet to materialize. US consumer confidence in January recorded its biggest one-month decline since November 2023. The US stock market, long Trump’s preferred proxy for economic might, is lower than it was before his inauguration, trailing major indexes in Europe, China, Mexico, and Canada — all targets of the president’s planned tariffs.
Microsoft — whose CEO, Satya Nadella, joined the post-election pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago — is calling on the White House to ease export limits on AI chips to allied or neutral countries. Chevron may lose a lucrative drilling concession in Venezuela over Trump’s immigration spat with that country’s strong-arm leader.
Trump’s picks to run key regulatory agencies, including those overseeing antitrust and the airwaves, appear likely to continue Biden-era enforcement priorities while adding new ideologically driven crackdowns and corporate purity tests. His pick to run the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, reaffirmed tough merger guidelines put in place by his predecessor, Lina Khan, which will do little for M&A, already off to its slowest start in a decade.
The Trump administration sued last month to block HPE’s takeover of Juniper, and said in a court filing last week that it’s unlikely to settle a lawsuit brought by the Biden administration seeking to block a travel-software merger.
“There isn’t a serious CEO in America who would prefer the disastrous, negative-growth policies of the previous administration over the pro-growth, low-tax, and low-regulation policies of President Trump,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields said. “In just four weeks, more than $1 trillion in private investment has flowed back into our country, and that’s a direct result of the Trump Effect, which is laying out the welcome mat for investment.”
Corporate executives making decisions on multiyear timeframes are struggling to decide whether to take Trump seriously, literally, or neither, and plan for a future after 2028. “You can’t move a factory overnight,” El-Khoury said. “It takes four years to build a fab.”
Onsemi gets about one-third of its revenue each from the US, Japan, and China, where half of its buyers are companies assembling cars or phones there for export. “Do you ignore it?” he said of Trump’s tariff threats, which expanded Wednesday to include a proposed 25% levy on European goods. “Or do you start doing scenario planning? That takes a lot of time and bandwidth.”
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