Anthropic was surely willing to give Trump 99% of he wants but they didn’t give him 100% so now he wants the company destroyed. Trump’s ever-present maximal stance on everything and his rock-solid foundation of a ~35% approval rate is frightening. I can’t imagine a real world situation where the percentage drops significantly. And GOP pols never forget it.

If Trump was the opposite of stupid, impatient, impulsive, and delusional - he could use his FBI and his DOJ to frame the execs of the company on - cough - trumped up charges. He could claim they were traitors who committed espionage. GOP pols would be “troubled” by this but other than that - they’d go along with it. And his base would love it. Destroy woke!

Trump could even create enough stochastic terrorism that maybe some wing nut chud murders an exec.