Billionaire Supporter Bill Ackman Turns On Trump
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s tariff move has drawn a rare pushback from Bill Ackman, a billionaire investor among his top supporters. He has listed the perils of tariffs, the most significant of which is a blow to the US reputation as a trading partner. Ackman also claimed the formula used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs was wrong, and the tariffs appeared four times larger than they were. “President Donald Trump is not an economist and therefore relies on his advisors to do these calculations so he can determine policy. The global economy is being taken down because of bad math,” he wrote on X. He said business is a confidence game and that confidence depends on trust, suggesting that Trump violated that trust. “The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for,” he said. Ackman acknowledged that the US …




