Trump Targets Corporate America to Achieve Economic and Foreign Policy Goals

Donald Trump with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the White House in April 2025.Photographer: Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg

He didn’t campaign on it. It wasn’t even broached during his first administration. He criticized his predecessor for it.

But this month President Donald Trump made clear that he’s willing to use the full force of the US government to directly intervene in corporate matters to achieve his economic and foreign policy goals.