While the senior management of major US corporations is naturally slow to speak out during the first weeks of a new administration, we should expect a growing chorus of pointed criticism as the Trump Administration lurches erratically from one ill-conceived and often extreme bromide to another.

These corporate leaders will be motivated not only by the harm such amateurish and mean spirited tinkering promises for the US domestic economy but also by the fact that most of these large corporations derive much of their profit and revenue from non-US markets.  Damage to those other economies and a growing anger with the US (and therefore a reluctance to buy goods and services associated with the US) will, over time, seriously damage the bottom line for these corporations and executives, therefore, will deem it their responsibility to speak out..