Over the course of four years, and often outside office hours, America’s business people became accustomed to unpredictable, unsparing and unfavourable tweets from the president. Then Donald Trump left office and such turmoil ended — or so it was thought. Over the Independence Day weekend, the spectre of presidential tweets re-emerged.
On the Saturday of the holiday weekend, a post appeared on President Biden’s social media accounts that further strained his relationship with corporate America. Addressing companies “running gas stations and setting prices at the pump”, he wrote: “Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.”
For those most frustrated with his administration’s response to the challenges engulfing the world’s