Varney: There’s a new sheriff in town

During his show “My Take” on Wednesday, “Varney & CoHost Stuart Varney discussed corporate leaders who are changing their tune with the new Trump administration on the horizon.

Stuart Varney: How times change when there is a new mayor in town.

Amazon plans to donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund; Bezos visits Mar-a-Lago

Over the past four years, American companies He aligned himself with Biden. Maybe they really believed in the progressive message. Perhaps they were afraid of the administration’s demagoguery regarding climate, race, gender, and pronouns. Who knows? But it’s over.

American companies are now in a hurry to change their positions.

Just look at Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. He and his company did everything they could to help the Democrats. Zuckerberg gave $400 million for the 2020 elections. After the riots on January 6, Facebook banned Donald Trump. How does that work for freedom of expression? When anyone tried to spread unconventional opinions about the Corona virus, they were censored!

Tech leaders Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook and Pichai are looking forward to a face-to-face meeting with Trump

Now a complete reversal. Zuckerberg makes the trip to Mar-a-Lago, donates money to Trump’s inauguration, and then comes up with an idea A new free speech plan modeled after Elon Musk’s Plan X. He says in a video clip that there is a lot of censorship! Think about this – a trillion dollar company makes $180. The new sheriff clearly has Zuckerberg worried, if not downright frightened.

Then there is DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the advanced version of affirmative action. The Biden team has pushed it hard. Now, DEI has been dropped across the board.

the The latest to decline is McDonald’s. On Monday, it announced that it would abandon diversity goals set for its top executives. Merit makes a comeback Granting a Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action in colleges helped end DEI, but it was Donald Trump who engineered the court’s conservative majority.

Was 2024 the year of breakup?

Immediately after his election victory, Trump held court at Mar-a-Lago. The media came down to kiss the ring. Remember Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski trying desperately to get back on Trump’s good side after years of insults? And there was Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was clearly frightened by Trump’s tariffs. But it was Stream of executives Which showed us the extent of institutional changes that Trump will bring. The bankers, the oilmen, the people on Wall Street, and of course the CEOs of all the trillion dollar tech companies.

They want to influence the new administration, and are not afraid to switch sides. They will ditch Biden and go with Trump, because he has the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and all the power that goes with that.

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