The Meaning of Trump’s Mass Cancellation
This is how the president’s term ends—with the GOP dithering and CEOs swashbuckling, spared by the “deep state” but impeached in the free market.
by Derek Thompson
Jan 12, 2021
3 minutes
Six days after the Capitol riot, it seems unlikely that President Donald Trump will be removed from office before the end of his term, either by the invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment or by conviction in the Senate.
But Trump is already facing a stranger, more wide-ranging, and deeply 21st-century form of public punishment. The president has been canceled by corporate America. Several major companies—including some of the largest tech corporations and sports organizations in the world—have effectively silenced, censured, and removed the
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