While they're still based in the US, no matter what they do, the long arm of American law will dictate their future actions. If President says jump, they'll just ask how high.

Europeans should know this, and be trying to unwind themselves entirely from any company that has a mothership in the US.

Didn't one of the UKs largest pharma companies cancel plans to build a massive new site in the UK in favour of building one in the US instead?

Looks a bit silly now.

When the petrodollar is replaced by the petroyuan there won't be a US for much long after. Japan will also have to sell off US Treasury bonds soon which will just hasten the decline of the US

It will need to be.

Human capital goes where the returns on human capital appreciate and are appreciated. And given the tendency of information to turn out to be footloose and of financial capital seeking to maximize financial returns, advances in STEM fields aren’t and won’t be geographically-constrained longer term.

I’d guess the people opposed to Trump are pretty aware of this.

It’s the supporters of Trump who think his dismantling of government is orthogonal to American leadership in tech, pharma, etc.

And should be.