The Daily Beast
Nathan Howard / REUTERS Business leaders are so freaked out by the possibility that Donald Trump might try to grab a slice of their companies that they’ve been practicing how to turn him down in front of the mirror. The president has increasingly adopted what the Wall Street Journal described on Wednesday as an “unorthodox” approach to the business sector, effectively turning his administration into an “activist investor” with direct stakes in at least ten high-value businesses announced over the past year. “Some executives are so worried Trump will ask for a stake in their company that they have prepared for Oval Office meetings by rehearsing what they would say to fend off the president’s advances,” the newspaper writes, citing lobbyists familiar with those preparations. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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