The September 11 crew were financed by Saudi Arabia, a number of the involved terrorists were Saudi born and/or citizens, Al-Qaeda itself was funded by Saudis, there's been a number of links over the years, don't try to pretend they're your friends.

Now, I don't give a shit about all of that, but I saw first hand today the step towards making America great again.

I work for a very large Australian company. We've been in discussions with a very large American company the purchase of $20M worth of equipment to do some lifecycle upgrades of some stuff which by all means should've been taken out and shot a long time ago.

Myself, my colleagues, and management, have all made annual trips to the US for the past several years in May to discuss the next round of purchases, and how we can help them to help us. As of this morning, that trip has been cancelled. 8 company reps + 7 vendor reps; all not going. 15 business class return flights with United. 15 hotel rooms for 10 days, plus restaurant meals, bookings companies, hire cars, entertainment; you get the idea.

The entire purchase is now up in the air. I don't know what the outcome will be; it remains to be seen. So far no discussion of alternatives, just cancelled.

But my bosses, bosses boss is a non-practicing Singaporean muslim.

Not saying it's definitely related; but it's one hell of a coincidence. We were all going on Friday afternoon when we had a meeting on the subject.

edit: Or maybe it's also the fact that Trump has signed an executive order meaning there's absolutely no data privacy laws for foreigners in, or dealing with, American companies. To quote a Slashdot article: As a non-American, I find it curious that the person who says he wants to bring jobs to America is simply confirming the post-Snowden belief that America is not a safe place to do business.