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Obama was 'dismissive' of business, Trump is more engaged, WPP CEO says
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Posted on 03/01/2017 8:46:19 AM PST by GonzoII

President Donald Trump is "heavily engaged" with business, making a dramatic change from the Obama administration which was "dismissive" of the community, Martin Sorrell, the CEO of the world's largest advertising firm WPP, said on Wednesday.

Sorrell, who sits on the Business Council in the U.S., slammed former President Barack Obama's track record with firms and said Trump's policies will boost growth.

"What is dramatically clear, whereas the Obama administration was indifferent or I would say almost dismissive of the business community and dismissive of … engagement, this is an administration that is clearly from a U.S. perspective, pro-growth, pro-business and heavily engaged … it has been peppered with engagement with different parts," Sorrell said during a talk hosted by CNBC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jointcongressspeech; obama; trump; trumpspeech; wpp
"I would say in the short-to-medium term, he will probably be successful, he has to implement his policies on tax, on regulation, on spending … but the atmosphere is remarkably different … than what we have seen in the last eight years under the Obama administration for good or bad," Sorrell said."
1 posted on 03/01/2017 8:46:19 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

No surprise there. Obama viewed businesses as a cash cow; Trump regards them as the lifeblood of prosperity.


2 posted on 03/01/2017 8:48:01 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: GonzoII

The stock market reflects this. I saw where the DOW has broke the 21,000 barrier this morning.


3 posted on 03/01/2017 8:48:49 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: GonzoII

“making a dramatic change from the Obama administration
which was “dismissive” of the community,”

Obama was incompetent and no more qualified for the presidency as a senior High School President of his class.

Thank God, the strength of the USA might still see us through this. No doubt the left hates Trump and they want him out of there at all cost.

His leading from behind was the only leading he was capable of doing. It’s like walking into a room at a party. What do you do? Walk over to the bar and grab a drink or walk right in and start mingling. Obama was the look first, then go from there.

Totally incompetent.

Our country in all its facets is worse now than ever.


4 posted on 03/01/2017 8:50:44 AM PST by nikos1121 (We are about to see The Golden Age of Pericles in the new Trump Administration.)
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To: ScottinVA

“O” and big ‘MO’ don’t understand money or wealth.

Whatever they own or have achieved is because they gamed a system that gave them an edge over people who actually worked and struggled to get anything or anywhere.

The personal struggle associated with accumulating a savings, getting through college, climbing up a professional ladder, is something totally alien to them. THEY always had a leg up, so to speak and never really faced hardship or doubt about their future...because the system was their safety net.


5 posted on 03/01/2017 9:07:16 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: GonzoII

Obama, in his own words, in his own book, describes his one brief experience holding a job in the private sector as “going behind enemy lines”.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 9:07:27 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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All that “you didn’t build that” propaganda garbage is coming home to roost now.


7 posted on 03/01/2017 9:10:38 AM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: ScottinVA

Good post, in one sentence, hammer head meets nail...:)


8 posted on 03/01/2017 9:51:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: nikos1121

I don’t think we are worse now than we were on 1/20/2017!

So there is that...:)


9 posted on 03/01/2017 9:53:11 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: GonzoII

Notice how many have over the last 5 weeks seem to now remember where they kept their spines and cojones for the last 8 years?

They didn’t speak out against Obama when it might have made a difference and helped the country.

But now that Donald Trump has done the heavy lifting, spent his own money and given up the life of a billionaire to wrest the country back from the democrats we see people coming out of the woodwork to voice honest criticism of Obama.


10 posted on 03/01/2017 10:04:47 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: GonzoII

Obama was not engaged in dealing with business.

He WAS engaged with boot licking media types, socialist academics, race hustlers and domestic terrorists.

Priorities, man. Priorities.


11 posted on 03/01/2017 12:26:55 PM PST by Stand W ("Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!" A)
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To: nikos1121

“Thank God, the strength of the USA might still see us through this”

We don’t deserve it (and I really thought He was done with us in 2012), but God just might be blessing us again. He sent us a champion named Trump who astounds me daily.


12 posted on 03/01/2017 12:29:51 PM PST by Stand W ("Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!" A)
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To: GonzoII
making a dramatic change from the Obama administration which was "dismissive" of the community

I guess that's a mild way of putting Obama's "You didn't build that!" smarmy socialism.

13 posted on 03/01/2017 3:36:23 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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