An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump.

Inside Trump’s vision of America as a shareholder in U.S. companies: ‘I should have asked for more’

In today’s CEO Daily: President Donald Trump talks to Fortune about his dealmaking philosophy.

The big leadership story: The energy CEO taking on the sector’s dual demands: more power and lower bills.

The markets: Mixed globally as Trump threatens Iran.

Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

Good morning. My colleague Alyson Shontell spoke with Donald Trump at the White House last week. (A small group of Fortune executives joined her in the Oval Office and did not take part in the interview.) This is a president who takes pride in, as he told Shontell, doing “deals every day that no normal person would make.” A few takeaways:

On taking stakes in U.S. companies: “Some people actually think it’s un-American, what I do. They say, ‘You’re taking their company away,’” the president said. But he sees such moves as a patriotic way to boost the economy, and if anything, he would like to do more, recounting last year’s visit from Intel........

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