Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (8555594ac) Hope Hicks, White House director of strategic communications, listens while meeting with women small business owners with U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured Donald Trump roundtable discussion with women small business owners, Washington DC, USA - 27 Mar 2017 Meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Investors on Monday further unwound trades initiated in November resting on the idea that the election of Trump and a Republican Congress meant smooth passage of an agenda that featured business-friendly tax cuts and regulatory changes.