Jamie Dimon thinks Trump was ‘kind of right’ about a lot of things. What? | Robert Reich

The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, America's largest and most powerful bank, is defending Trump's record. This is absurd

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On Wednesday, speaking from the World Economic Forum's confab in Davos, Switzerland, Jamie Dimon - chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest and most profitable bank in the United States, and one of the most influential CEOs in the world - heaped praise on Donald Trump's policies while president.

Take a step back, be honest," Dimon said. Trump was kind of right about Nato, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked. He was right about some of China. He wasn't wrong about some of these critical issues."

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com