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Has Donald Trump effectively become the C.E.O.-in-chief, in addition to commander-in-chief and president of the United States? To the annoyance of a lot of people on Wall Street, it’s starting to look that way, as the litany of convention-defying examples of overreach become de rigueur—from seemingly petty demonstrations of power, like excommunicating the Kennedy Center’s non-ideologically compliant board members and accepting a 747 from Qatar, despite laws designed to prevent that kind of thing, to more substantive power plays, such as relentlessly pushing for the removal of Fed chairman Jay Powell.
