There is, of course, the elephant in the room: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who continues to campaign for Donald Trump, with millions of dollars (75, so far, or 59 million euros), but also meetings and incessant messages on his social network in 2016, or even the head of the Pershing Hedge Fund, Bill Ackman, who became a Trumpist after the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. Finally, we find heirs, such as the Israeli-American Miriam Adelson, widow of a casino magnate and great defender of Benjamin Netanyahu.
But, behind these usual protagonists, there is absolute calm. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, the “boss” of Wall Street, had set the stage for Trump’s return in January. “Be honest. He was absolutely right about NATO. He was quite right about immigration: it grew the economy quite well. The tax reform worked. He was partly right about China.”said Dimon during the Davos Forum in Switzerland. Since then, he has been careful not to support him. Hedge Fund Citadel head Ken Griffin, who had supported his Republican primary opponents, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and then-former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, ultimately did not help Trump.
And when we leave the world of finance in the hands of large American industrial and service companies, the silence is deafening.. “Almost no major American CEOs support Donald Trump. And if the opposite idea is repeated in the international press, it is because of its propaganda. But ask them to name five, three and two. There is not a single CEO on the list of the world’s top 100 companies. Fortune who supports Trump », says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at the prestigious Yale School of Management and founding president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, specializing in business leaders.
Donald Trump was expected to beat Joe Biden, but the duel with his successor requires caution. Kamala Harris is not Joe Biden. The outgoing president gave a workerist speech, very favorable to the unions. He was determined to confront the companies with an aggressive antitrust policy, a denunciation of their margins considered excessive and a desire to increase their taxes. Although she has barely modified Joe Biden’s most leftist program in half a century, Kamala Harris aims to embody the social rise of the middle classes and is more favorable to the business world, invoking her Californian roots when she addresses technology companies. . He may not reappoint far-left antitrust chief Lina Kahn, hated in Silicon Valley, including by big Democratic Party donors like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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