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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:30 AM Jun 2017

CEOs to Trump: You're failing

by Matt Egan @mattmegan5
June 15, 2017: 8:38 AM ET

President Trump loved to brag during the campaign about his business skills. Now that he's in charge, business leaders seem alarmed by Trump's political skills.

A stunning 50% of the CEOs, business execs, government officials and academics surveyed at the annual Yale CEO Summit give Trump an "F" for his first 130 days in office.

The survey, released earlier this week, found that another 21% give Trump's performance a "D" so far. Just 1% of the 125 leaders polled awarded the billionaire an "A."

The overarching message from CEOs is: "Stop the random 3 a.m. tweets and stop the needless brushfires diverting from the agenda," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Yale School of Management professor who led the summit.

Sonnenfeld noted that 80% of those surveyed are CEOs, including Blackstone (BX) CEO Steve Schwarzman and IBM (IBM, Tech30) boss Ginni Rometty, who sit on Trump's advisory council and Merck (MRK) CEO Ken Frazier, a member of the president's manufacturing initiative. (Individual responses by each CEO were not released.)

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/15/investing/ceos-give-trump-f-yale-survey/index.html

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CEOs to Trump: You're failing (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
If the market starts to tank, maybe the repubs will finally get rid of him. CrispyQ Jun 2017 #1
So, basically... Hugin Jun 2017 #2

CrispyQ

(36,492 posts)
1. If the market starts to tank, maybe the repubs will finally get rid of him.
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:22 AM
Jun 2017

Hope we have a country left.

Hugin

(33,177 posts)
2. So, basically...
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:28 AM
Jun 2017

Ol' Yeller gave himself an "A". I'm guessing the remaining 0.25 was round-off error.

If my math is correct... You might want to check my numbers, I'm not a CEO.

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