President Trump is doing something many of his supporters said they wanted him to do: act not like a normal politician but like a businessman, for Americans, as if we were stockholders in a for-profit company.
Bring in the dough. Efficiently.
“Saudi Crown Prince Pledges $1 Trillion Investment in US During Meeting with Trump,” an article at The Epoch Times tells us. The Saudi potentate is boosting, the story runs, an “investment partnership with the United States from $600 billion,” and the prince in question, Mohammed bin Salman — his reputation previously sullied by the part he played in the gruesome assassination of a journalist — explains that the “investments will focus on what he described as ‘real opportunities’ in areas such as artificial intelligence and magnets.”
The article notes that the “Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a Nov. 17 post on X that the crown prince, widely known as MBS, would meet Trump ‘to discuss bilateral relations, ways to strengthen them across various fields, and issues of mutual interest.’”
Now, that latter discussion of diplomatic issues appears normal. That is, what we expect two heads of state to do when conferring.
But all this talk of extra investment? Micromanaging foreign investment within the United States?
That’s never been the recipe for republican governance and can so easily and quickly devolve into plutocratic socialism-for-the-rich. There’s no shouting “limited government” about what Trump boasts of regarding “the deals” he makes for the U.S.
For “us.”
But it does fit what many had hoped he would be: a businessman taking charge of the corporation that is the unitary “United States.” A fix-it man for the federal Leviathan.
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One reply on “This Is What Businessman Rule Looks Like”
…and now we know why he’s been the object of such incredible hatred. He’s NOT a politician. He’s a capitalist billionaire howl the commies. THe day he was elected the sacred curtain of lies was torn open to expose the Deep State minions pulling the levers for a powerful and wealthy few (Bernie’s capitalist oligarchs). He is exposing the false logic and lies behind the statement that the US government can’t be run like a for-profit business — but only if he’s allowed to continue and they are throwing everything they have at him and still have no clue why 77 million Americans voted him back into the Oval.
Efficiency is the mantra of a for profit business and the enemy of the government bureaucrats because they know it will cost them their jobs and they can no longer suckle at the teat of the tax payers. Maybe they can learn to code.