'The best meeting they’d ever had': Trump snarls at report on disastrous talk with CEOs
More than 24 hours after it was reported that Donald Trump's Thursday Business Roundtable meeting with high-powered CEO's had the attending executives claiming he "doesn't know what he was talking about," the former president fired back and claimed the story was planted by "Biden Scum."
On Friday CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reported, "I spoke to a number of CEOs who I would say walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction, who said that he was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought, was all over the map, and that they – which, maybe not surprising, but was interesting to me because these were people who I think might have been actually predisposed and walked out of the room less predisposed to him, actually thinking, as one person said, 'This may not be any different or better than Biden though, if you're thinking that way. That was very interesting."
Saturday afternoon, the former president pushed back and claimed some CEO's called it the "best meeting they had ever had."
Specifically, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "Had a great meeting with the Business Roundtable on Thursday - All CEOs at the top Companies in the Nation, and beyond. I have already heard from so many how good the Meeting was - Larry Kudlow was the Moderator, and we covered a lot of territory. The problem with doing this Roundtable group, however, is that some of these 'Leaders' are Biden sympathizers, especially those on top - They love spreading false rumors and innuendo, and take what was a GREAT Meeting, actually an inspirational one, and doing everything possible to belittle and inflame."
He then added, "It’s put out by the Biden Scum in order to dignify his existence - Something very hard to do. Ask Larry Kudlow, Newt Gingrich, or I could give you a list of executives to talk to. Some said it was the best Meeting they’d ever had, and they were virtually all there. Anybody saying anything else is no friend of our Country!"