How is it possible Trump’s habitual incoherence caught top CEOs by surprise?

Sometimes I wonder if all the attention Donald Trump gets is going to backfire. I suppose “wonder” might be another word for “hope,” but I don’t hope (or wonder) without a good reason. There are so many people, even powerful people, who are not paying attention to this election. Why? Perhaps because Trump dominates news of it.

For example, I was watching this clip this morning. In it, CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin reported what he heard from some of America’s top CEOs yesterday after their meeting with Trump in Washington.