Blankfein Says He Appreciates How Trump Skirts the Media on Twitter

Lloyd Blankfein

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One of Lloyd Blankfein’s inspirations for joining Twitter: Donald Trump.

"It’s only with some great trepidation I’d say anything positive about the president in this crowd, or any crowd,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chief executive officer said at an event in Boston. “But I would say that one of the things I admire is the way he disintermediated the press. I mean, really, you have to say it.”