Trump’s State of the Union: What business leaders want to hear

Yahoo Finance Video and Brian Sozzi

Tue, February 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM GMT+9

President Trump is scheduled to give his State of the Union address on Tuesday night after threatening to impose new 15% global tariffs in response to the US Supreme Court’s striking down his sweeping trade tariff policies.

Harvard University executive education fellow Bill George speaks with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about what business leaders will want to hear from Trump in his speech tonight.

George is also the former CEO of Medtronic (MDT).

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Video Transcript

00:00 Speaker A

What’s the one thing you think the business community wants to hear from the president in the state of the Union?

00:04 Speaker B

that he’s got to refocus on a stable economy and stable economic growth. That’s the one thing they want to hear. It’s all 26 is all about growth. And the companies that can grow in 26 or stocks that go up, those that don’t will stagnate. whether they beat their numbers or not, you’ll see them not performing. By the way, my dream thing prime for you let me go, is the Olympics. Here you saw nations from all over the world competing, totally clean, no chaos, everything, you know, the best woman or man won. and by the way, kudos to the Norwegians. Here’s a country of 9 million people, uh, that uh, swept the the the medals. Fantastic. And by the way, the US had its most gold medals ever. So just good clean competition. That’s what I favor. Uh, not a crony capitalistic economy like we’ve seen in 25. I just favor good, good hard competition and uh, may the best company win.

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