American business leaders are turning on Trump -- fast

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.)

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2025/american-business-leaders-are-turning-on-trump-fast