New York (CNN Business)Donald Trump ran as America’s first CEO president, one whose business skills made him uniquely qualified to run the world’s largest economy.
Yet two years since Trump’s election, it’s clear the billionaire businessman has governed as the opposite of a modern CEO.
Trump’s CEO councils abandoned him in a rebuke to his incendiary comments on the violence in Charlottesville. He recruited executives to the administration, but they didn’t fit in. ExxonMobil (XOM) boss Rex Tillerson was fired — by tweet. Goldman Sachs (GS) president Gary Cohn quit in the wake of Trump’s imposition of protectionist trade policy.
