Chris Kleponis/CNP/AdMedi/SIPA/NewscomMost business executives fumed and groused for the eight years Barack Obama was in the White House. He was a former community organizer who had never met a payroll, and those in the corporate boardrooms thought he was no friend of free enterprise.

Now, instead of a liberal lawyer in the White House, CEOs have one of their own. And they’re finding it’s not everything they hoped. At this point, President Trump’s recurring message is that any executive who doesn’t do as Trump wishes can expect retribution from the most powerful man on earth.

Obama was not the friend CEOs think the president of the United States should be, writes Steve Chapman. But in Trump, they’re finding out what it’s like to have a real enemy.

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