it costs $5 million per head to have dinner with Trump
The executives are happy to pay the $5M per head and tell them their woes. Then Trump selectively takes off tarrifs for those companies and industries.
It's a game of power for him. He wants the most powerful CEOs to kiss the ring. What does he want from Canada? Fuck if I know, but he wants us to kiss the ring too. We're not really like that though, so this will be a messy one.