Opinion | Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Support of Corporate America - The New York Times

As such, it was hardly surprising that just as when Mr. Trump faced a chilly reaction from hundreds of top executives when he spoke at my Yale Chief Executive summit in 2005, he appeared to face a similarly frigid reception when he spoke to the Business Roundtable this month, with no noticeable applause at any point during his "remarkably meandering" remarks, according to CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, and with Mr. Trump assuming a subdued, if not hostile, posture. Chief executives are not protectionist, isolationist or xenophobic, and they believe in investing where there is the rule of law, not the law of rulers...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/opinion/ceo-trump-republican-support.html

U.S. Allies to Sign Sweeping Trade Deal in Challenge to Trump - The New York Times

A group of 11 countries is set to sign a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as they try to counter Washington's new protectionism. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/world/asia/us-trump-tpp-signed.html

Trump held a freewheeling White House meeting on trade — and it sounds like some of economists' worst fears could come true -- Business Insider

President Donald Trump held a meeting on trade at the White House on Tuesday and raised the spectre of possible protectionist policies while pushing back on senators suggestions that new tariffs could be bad for the US economy. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-meeting-on-trade-china-tariffs-cars-steel-nafta-2018-2