Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two other people in the room who spoke to CNBC.

The same CEOs who were struck by Trump’s lack of focus “walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction,” Sorkin reported.

“These were people who I think might have been actually predisposed to [Trump but] actually walked out of the room less predisposed” to him, Sorkin said.

“At one point, he discussed his plan to bring the corporate tax rate down from 21% to 20% … and was asked about why he had chosen 20%,” Sorkin said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And he said, ‘Well, it’s a round number.’”

“That unto itself had a number of CEOs shaking their heads,” Sorkin reported.

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      75 months ago

      They view him as a useful idiot. They think they’ll be able to control him, but they should have realized by now that’s not possible. He’s like a windup toy. You can send him in a direction, but he may drift off course or someone else might redirect him.

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      55 months ago

      AI generated article. Just white noise to fill the space in between Gaza genocides and climate change collapse.