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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can argue the Constitution and Executive Orders issues until the cows come home but NONE of that is relevant here. You cannot make the comparison that OP wants to make.   Consider this - based on his tweet, Boeing's stock price dipped temporarily. If I get time, I will look at how Boeing traded volume-wise after his Tweet. If I am a significant Boeing investor or employee, I am pissed.  He impacted the stock price with a ill-advised misinformed tweet.  He lost people money  - at least temporarily.  What he has to get is that he is soon to be the POTUS and his words can shake the markets.  Tweeting about what he is going to do to certain companies is market manipulation pure and simple.  I suspect that he will soon get a nice letter from the SEC and the OGE.  If he want to do procurement reform, I am all for it.  THIS was not that. [/quote]

Its a shot across the bow.  He knows exactly what he's doing, with this and the Taiwan call.  He's telling a lot of folks that business as usual is coming to an end.[/quote]

I think you are giving him more credit than he deserves.  You are saying his lack of impulse control is genius and calculated. I like my leaders to be a bit more measured.  I am not sure that it is a good thing to willy nilly impact the market like this.  Also, it is difficult to credibly say that it will not be business as usual when he has surrounded himself with Wall Street and DC insiders.

But I get it.  Many of you want a despot.  Someone who will "strike fear" in these corporations and bend them to his will.  Well, my father used to tell me that people will tolerate you as long as you are not messing with their money.  If he starts costing these corporations money, things will get very hard for him. Don't forget, many on the Hill depend on these corporations.  I predict that Trump will be reigned in before too long. [/quote]

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