{"id":6568,"date":"2026-05-18T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:38:59","slug":"inside-trumps-vision-of-the-u-s-as-a-shareholder-in-american-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6568","title":{"rendered":"Inside Trump\u2019s vision of the U.S. as a shareholder in American companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good morning. My colleague Alyson Shontell spoke with Donald Trump at the White House last week. (A small group of Fortune executives joined her in the Oval Office and did not take part in the interview.) This is a president who takes pride in, as he told Shontell, doing \u201cdeals every day that no normal person would make.\u201d A few takeaways:<\/p>\n

On taking stakes in U.S. companies: \u201cSome people actually think it\u2019s un-American, what I do. They say, \u2018You\u2019re taking their company away,\u2019\u201d the president said. But he sees such moves as a patriotic way to boost the economy, and if anything, he would like to do more, recounting last year\u2019s visit from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. \u201cI said, \u2018Give the country 10% ownership for free in Intel.\u2019 He said, \u2018You have a deal.\u2019 I said, \u2018Shit, I should have asked for more.\u2019\u201d Added Trump: \u201cI want to help American companies. There\u2019s nothing in it for me other than I want companies to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the national debt: Musing about this intractable problem, the real estate president casts it in a way that\u2019s likely to blow the minds of economists and others who are concerned about how much the U.S. government now owes. Trump calculates the potential worth of natural assets like the Grand Canyon and even America\u2019s surrounding oceans. \u201cIf you put down the value of these things, it\u2019s like hundreds of trillions of dollars,\u201d Trump said, and by that measure, \u201cif you kept [the national debt] at $40 trillion, you\u2019re way under-levered.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Iran war: \u201cI can tell you one thing\u2014they\u2019re dying to sign [a deal],\u201d says the president. \u201cBut they make a deal, and then they send you a paper that has no relationship to the deal you made. I say, \u2018Are you people crazy?\u2019\u201d It\u2019s an intriguing and head-spinning conversation in the way that so many with Trump turn out to be. You can read the full story here.<\/p>\n

Contact CEO Daily via Diane Brady at diane.brady@fortune.com<\/p>\n

Top leadership news<\/p>\n

Powering AI and cutting bills<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fortune, NRG CEO Robert Gaudette highlighted the power and electricity giant\u2019s efforts in the burgeoning business of turning the United States\u2019 dumb power grid into a smart one with better technology. There are two pillars to NRG\u2019s strategy: rapid power growth to satisfy demand and better efficiency to help solve the rising utility bill woes that are triggering AI backlash.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank’s work with Epstein\u00a0<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank described its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as running from August 2013 to December 2018. Internally, the reality was much messier. Some of the disgraced financier\u2019s accounts officially remained open at the bank following his arrest on July 6, 2019\u2014seven months after he was supposed to have been terminated. It wasn\u2019t until July 9, 2019, that all of Epstein\u2019s accounts were closed at the bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oil markets’ ticking clock<\/p>\n

Investors have been trading on the hope that the Iran ceasefire remains intact, but there are few signs that the oil trade will return to normal soon, forcing them to reckon with the reality of worsening shortages and an imminent tipping point ahead. JPMorgan predicted that commercial oil inventories in the developed world could \u201capproach operational stress levels\u201d by early June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The markets<\/p>\n

S&P 500 futures are down 0.31% this morning. The last session closed down 1.24%. The STOXX Europe 600 was down 0.31% in early trading. The U.K.\u2019s FTSE 100 was up 0.17% in early trading. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 was down 0.97%. South Korea\u2019s KOSPI was up 0.31%. China\u2019s CSI 300 was down 0.54%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng was down 1.11%. India\u2019s NIFTY 50 is down 0.24%. Bitcoin was down at $77K.<\/p>\n

Around the watercooler<\/p>\n

Wall Street is keeping a close eye on Kevin Warsh at the Fed. These are the red (and green) flags they\u2019re watching for by Eleanor Pringle<\/p>\n

\u2018No one was coming to save me\u2019: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn\u2019t fix by Sydney Lake<\/p>\n

Gen Z wants AI-proof jobs. The president of a 50-property hotel chain says hospitality is hiding in plain sight by Preston Fore<\/p>\n

Supply shocks weren\u2019t random. They were strategic\u2014and should be seen as \u2018supply coercion\u2019 instead, former Fed official says by Jason Ma<\/p>\n

Meet the 20-year-old CEO who launched a company in high school to solve Gen Z\u2019s entry-level job crisis by Jake Angelo<\/p>\n

CEO Daily is curated and edited by Joseph Abrams, Jason Ma, Claire Zillman, and Lee Clifford.<\/p>\n

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