>"The President’s decision to attempt a “self-coup” came at what was already a fraught time for the Trump Organization."

If the corporate shunning of Trump persists and expands to other businesses owned by him, it could do immense damage. Trump’s hotels and resorts, such as the Trump National Doral, in Miami, depend on big businesses to fill their ballrooms and function spaces. They also rely on wealthy individuals to book the tee times, hotel rooms, and weddings that provide daily revenues.

>"The President’s decision to attempt a “self-coup” came at what was already a fraught time for the Trump Organization."

>"The President’s decision to attempt a “self-coup” came at what was already a fraught time for the Trump Organization."

It remains to be seen whether any of these ideas come to anything. Right now, though, the Trump name is so toxic that virtually no one in the business world wants to be associated with it, and neither do major municipalities.

“After the deadly violence at the Capitol, on January 6th, the financial blowback on Trump came quickly. Within twenty-four hours, Shopify, the e-commerce provider, shut down a number of online stores affiliated with Trump, including ones that sold Trump campaign merchandise. A bigger blow for the President came last Sunday, when the P.G.A. of America, which has had a long-standing relationship with him, announced that the 2022 P.G.A. Championship, one of professional golf’s four major tournaments, would no longer be held at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Twenty-four hours later, the R. & A., the ruling body of golf outside of the United States, followed the P.G.A.’s lead and announced that, for the foreseeable future, the British Open would not be played at Turnberry, a famous old course that Trump owns in Scotland... Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world’s largest brokers of commercial real estate, said that it had “made the decision to no longer do business with the Trump Organization.” Deutsche Bank said that it won’t lend any further money to the Trump Organization after its current loans—which are worth more than three hundred million dollars—come due, in 2023 and 2024. New York City announced that it is ending Trump’s contracts to run two ice rinks and a carousel in Central Park and a golf course in the Bronx.

Trump’s passion for golf is well known: since becoming President, he has played more than three hundred rounds. But the passion also extends to his wallet.