[rickdeckard]

> This administration doesn't seem to care very much about appearances.

(Or, this administration cares ONLY about appearances)

Either way, I'm not talking about appearances, I'm talking about the sitting US-president publicly attacking one of the most important companies of the US economy, with complete disregard for the consequences of his actions and the impact to the country and its citizens.

[johnnyjeans]

The part where it becomes appearances is that it's public. The negative impact here stems from the office of the president criticizing the CEO of a publicly traded company, using an unofficial but public channel. This impact doesn't exist if it happens in private backchannels.

I think it's foolhardy to hold any certainty on the effect of transitioning from gloabalism to neo-mercantilism, which seems to be the economic policy of this admin. Given the complexity of the systems involved it should be flagrantly obvious that whether this is good or bad for the American people is wholly unpredictable for tiny little monkey brains. Thus, when I speak of the negative impacts in this context, I'm implicitly just sticking to what's definitely harmful, which is tied up in appearances here, and empirically measurable in intel's stock price (though it seems to be mostly minimal, thankfully.)