Corporate America is positioning for a world shaped by Trump

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Corporate USA embraces Trumpworld

Smart money follows incentives, not ideology.?

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, some of America’s most powerful boardrooms have unwound progressive social policies and pandemic-era inclinations.

Consider the recent flurry of announcements across Wall Street and Silicon Valley:?

• Apple’s $500 billion investment in US manufacturing and jobs
• Citadel Securities’ embrace of cryptocurrency
• JPMorgan scrubbing diversity language?

Individually, you could argue that each is a rational business decision. Taken together, they signal something bigger: Corporate America is positioning itself for Trump’s America — a landscape that looks likely to outlast Trump himself.

To be clear, none of these companies have endorsed the current administration. They are, however, giving the White House something far more valuable in recalibrating for an economic environment that’s increasingly aligned with the president’s vision — pro-digital assets and AI, domestic investment, a retreat from DEI.?

Apple, for one, has spent decades building its supply chain and roots in China. But days after chief executive Tim Cook met with Trump, the world’s most valuable company announced its plan to pour $500 billion into the US and hire 20,000 people.

The move de-risks Apple from China while re-shoring business and manufacturing to America.?

“We’re thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing,” Cook said in a statement Monday (which followed Trump’s comment on Friday that Apple wants to avoid tariffs).?

Hours later, Bloomberg reported Ken Griffin’s $64 billion firm Citadel Securities intends to push into market-making for cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase and Binance — reflecting a separate bet on Trump’s ambitions to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet.”??

Citadel, like others on Wall Street, largely remained sidelined on digital assets under former president Joe Biden’s more restrictive regulatory regime.

To that point, Robinhood announced Monday, too, that the SEC’s investigation into its crypto-trading business ended this week.?

While Trump has indeed embraced crypto, he hasn’t initiated any meaningful crypto-related policies. That hasn’t stopped Wall Street from pivoting as if new rules have already been written.?

The final detail worth noting is that JPMorgan — in addition to Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America — scaled back its public support for diversity and equity this month. It’s a quiet acknowledgement that Wall Street is suddenly less keen on social activism.?

Other corporations including Meta, Alphabet, Ford and McDonald’s have done the same in recent weeks.?

The irony is that many of these decisions will last well beyond Trump’s four-year term limit. Whether you call it capitulation or pragmatism, companies like Apple and JPMorgan rarely pivot without believing in the long-run repercussions.?

So, for better or worse, even if the president resigned tomorrow, his economic policies have already left their mark.?

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