I am not sure. That said, it does seem that people from the US place an unusually large degree of trust in business, and less trust in government [1]. I have read that there has been a great deal of money spent in the US on pro-business propaganda over the last century [2], so perhaps results like these are not so surprising!
[1] See the graph in this Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/02/05/america...
[2] This is discussed at length in the book "Collision Course" by Kerryn Higgs. See: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collision-course