America’s corporate elite hope to stay on Trump’s good side. It’s a fool’s errand.

Oct. 31, 2024, 6:00 AM EDT By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor

Trump’s Sycophants1:

  • Elon Musk. Fractional CEO: SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, X/Twitter

Flip/Flops:

  • Bill Ackerman, billionaire hedge fund manager. Condemned January 6, 2021 insurrection, calling on Trump to “resign and apologize to all Americans.” Flip/Flopped in July when he announced he would endorse Trump. At the time Ackman wrote on social media, “We are in the midst of a perilous moment for our democracy.”

All-In:

  • Robert “Woody” Johnson, New York Jets owner – “Americans remember how good it was or how much better it was on the border and inflation and gas prices and grocery prices, all that, during the Trump administration, and they want to get back there.”
  • Winklevoss (Cameron & Tyler) twins. donated more than $1 million each to support Trump, citing Trump’s “Pro-Bitcoin Pro-Crypto Pro-Business” position.2
  • Miriam Adelson, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and the wife of the late casino executive Sheldon Adelson
  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk,
  • Marc Andreesen, venture capitalists
  • Ben Horowitz, venture capitalists
  • Ike Perlmutter, former Marvel Chairman
  • Richard Uihlein, shipping magnate

Cowards:

  • Warren Buffet, Midwest magnate
  • Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase CEO
  • Patrick Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles Times publisher
  • Jeff Bezos, Amazon owner, Washington Post, Blue Origins

Beneficiaries of a Trump Win:

  • Dictators
    • Vladimir Putin
    • Viktor Orbán
  • Trump
    • DJ (Don Jr)
    • Eric
    • Javanka (Jared & Ivanka Kushner)
  • Criminals
    • January 6, 2021 in​sur​rec​tion​ists

Losers of a Trump Win

  • America
  • Democracy

  1. @RalphHightower: sycophants (def., informal): brown nosers, boot lickers, ass kissers ↩

  2. @RalphHightower: cryptocurrency reminds me of that Dire Straits song, “Money for Nothing”. ↩