During Donald Trump’s first term, John Shahidi, then a manager of DJs and pop artists such as Anitta, had a problem. He noticed that when he mentioned his admiration for the president in meetings, people would get quiet. Invitations to certain parties dried up; one night, after he said he was staying at the Trump Hotel in New York, his dinner companions, who were planning to meet with him again the next day, canceled. He worried that his clients were losing out on opportunities by associating with him and that he was also losing clients. “Nobody said, ‘Hey you’re ...
