Who knew Agent Orange could be so destructive? Not the billionaires who backed Donald Trump — a crew spanning Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, the Winklevoss crypto twins and, of course, Elon Musk. Finally, another of his biggest cheerleaders has woken up to the risks of putting untrammelled power into the hands of a US president with wacko economic theories from a bygone age. Rewind to July and there he was bigly endorsing Trump: “I assure you that I have made this decision, carefully, rationally, and by relying on as much empirical data as possible”. Ackman has become the first to publicly break ranks over the tariff mayhem, telling his 1.7 million followers on Musk’s


Source:   The Times
April 08, 2025 15:50 UTC