Whenever Trump crosses a line into outright racism, business leaders are quick to desert him. As for big business, whenever Trump crosses a line into outright racism, business leaders are quick to desert him. In August, after Trump’s comments about events at Charlottesville, so many top business leaders quit Trump’s two business advisory councils in protest that Trump had to disband them. It’s encouraging that our constitutional institutions are withstanding Trump’s assaults and that the occasional business leader tells him to take a hike. I’d feel even better, however, if big business was not also playing footsie with Trump over his plans for big cuts in corporate taxes and his efforts to gut health, safety, environmental, labor and financial regulation.

Source: Huffington Post September 25, 2017 00:56 UTC