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Uber Technologies Inc.’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, said he is stepping down from President Donald Trump’s economic advisory council, saying that his participation has been misunderstood as an endorsement of the new administration’s policies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-technologies-ceo-travis-kalanick-leaves-presidents-business-council-1486073997?mod=e2tw

President Trump may not be good for your business if the majority of your customers don't like Trump. The same applies to most American global companies.

upd: Jeffrey Pfeffer chimes in:

That is a fundamental problem, Mr. Pfeffer said. “No good business makes decisions that are based on falsehoods,” he said. “My sense is that Trump takes no one’s counsel but his own. That’s bad management, period.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/donald-trump-management-style.html

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Flashback to election:

No chief executive at the nation’s 100 largest companies had donated to Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through August, a sharp reversal from 2012, when nearly a third of the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies supported GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-fortune-100-ceos-back-republican-donald-trump-1474671842