If you want to hire a guest worker with a PhD, you have to pay $100,000 under new federal rules — unless you can get an exemption from President Donald Trump.
If you want to sell prescription drugs made overseas, your customers will have to pay steep tariffs — unless, like Pfizer, you cut a deal to sell your drugs through a new Trump-branded pharmaceutical portal.
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And if your company wants to merge with a Japanese company, Trump might block it — unless you give him a “golden share.”
There’s a pattern here. In a mocking but charitable attempt to describe Trump’s behavior, journalist Derek Thompson suggested Trump just loves phone calls.
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