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I misspoke when I said we have gone 24 hours without a Trump twitter controversy. This one’s less likely to start a war, though in some ways it’s more disturbing.

So, at around 8:00am this morning, Trump fired off a tweet which suggested he was going to take the contract for Air Force One away from Boeing. When I say ‘suggested,’ what I mean is that the tweet ended with the words, “Cancel order!” Boeing’s stock began dropping.

There was a lot of confusion abroad about why Trump would just up and do this. Then Jake Tapper from CNN, who appears to be a man on a mission when it comes to Trump, noted that Boeing’s CEO had been quoted in a Chicago Tribune piece as being critical of Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric.

Evidently, Trump read this article, got pissed off, and decided to punish Boeing because its CEO dared to oppose him. I’ve figured out, incidentally, why Trump is so addicted to Twitter. It provides him with an instant gratification that he cannot obtain in any other way. He thinks it, he tweets it, he basks in the attention. The attention is what’s important to him, not the consequences. No wonder “Trump’s Unpredictable Style Unnerves Corporate America.”

All right. Let me see how succinctly I can explain why, in a capitalist economy, when you are the incoming or actual President of the United States, Words Have Consequences, and why even those of us who kind of hate corporate America share some of their unnerved-ness.

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