Kara Swisher Says CEOs Who’ve Bent the Knee to Trump Text Her ‘I Know You Hate Me But I Hate Myself More’

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SWISHER: "I had someone saying, 'I know you hate me, but I hate myself more,' like. for having to do this. And one of the things that was interesting, I was on the train coming up here from Washington where the business roundtable was talking about, and I was listening. Of course, they all talk loudly on the Amtrak, as you know, and they were all saying — "

COOPER: "(Laughs) Never a wise thing to do."

SWISHER: "They were all saying how the tariffs were ridiculous, how it‘s going to hurt business, how they‘re going to cut back. And every CEO I talked to is talking about cutbacks. Now, sometimes that‘s a good thing. Sometimes it‘s good to clean up things and clean up costs and everything else if you do it in a smart way. But this is so haphazard, nobody knows what‘s going to happen. And again, I look to the markets. The markets are telling you they don‘t like this. Americans are telling you they don‘t like this. The price of eggs is telling you it doesn‘t like this."