Given Trump's history of cheating I cannot understand why any company would not put him or anything he is connected to, USA included, on a COO list.

As said before, I had several bosses like Trump, over the years. They would promise me great things in the future, if I gave them what they wanted now, which was always at my expense. Of course, when "future" came, they always had an excuse why they couldn't deliver, but now they had another ask. If you implied you weren't going to fall for their con again, they brought the hammer and beat on you until you submitted, or went away, so they could con someone else.

I forget if it was in "All The President's Men" or "The Palace Guard", that talks about "the Stans shakedown cruise". Maurice Stans, former Sec Commerce, was head of fundraising for CREEP. He went around the country demanding huge, under the table, campaign "donations" from companies that had government contracts, with the threat to see to it they never got another government contract, unless they paid up.

That's the life of a Prole: constantly being conned, and, if he resists the con, the tactics change to outright extortion.

Steve