Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two other people in the room who spoke to CNBC.

The same CEOs who were struck by Trump’s lack of focus “walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction,” Sorkin reported.

“These were people who I think might have been actually predisposed to [Trump but] actually walked out of the room less predisposed” to him, Sorkin said.

“At one point, he discussed his plan to bring the corporate tax rate down from 21% to 20% … and was asked about why he had chosen 20%,” Sorkin said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And he said, ‘Well, it’s a round number.’”

“That unto itself had a number of CEOs shaking their heads,” Sorkin reported.

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      5 months ago

      He’s easy to manipulate and ideological committed to doing fascism on a national scale.

      But it’s not like they didn’t try to run other people. DeSantis, Cruz, Hailey, Christie - they all ended up eating shit.

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      Sometimes kids have backbone?

      Also, if we believe the GoP has some magical pee-party leverage over Mr Trump, then he represents a special kind of provably-shameless monkey for them to push around.

      Their golden goose may be doddering, decrepit and rambling, but if he’s still making eggs then he’s valuable as-is.