Corporate America doesn’t like either presidential candidate

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have each won the support of some corporate big shots. In Clinton’s corner: billionaire Warren Buffett. On the Trump train: billionaire Carl Icahn.

But the bigger story this election season is how unhappy many business bigwigs are with both Clinton and Trump. Especially Trump.

“We’ve commented on the bad ideas of both major candidates,” John Murphy, senior vice president for international policy at the US Chamber of Commerce, tells Yahoo Finance in the video above. “Trade policy has been very much under discussion on both sides of the aisle. Trade has been one of the things that’s been going right.”

Neither candidate sees it that way. Trump is the most vocal, vowing to tear up free-trade deals and impose tariffs on imports from China and Mexico. Clinton has backed away from prior support for free-trade pacts, saying she no longer supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership now under consideration on Capitol Hill.

Murphy says Trump’s policies would “cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in lost sales.” And he says Trump’s “proposal to raise tariffs against imports from certain countries, to rip up our past trade agreements, we think would be very damaging. And we’re not the only ones.”

That’s true: The Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs of major American companies led by John Engler, has also slammed Trump’s stance on trade and immigration. So has Jay Timmons, the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Nearly 150 technology leaders recently signed a public letter in the Huffington Post saying, “Trump would be a disaster for innovation.” They say his efforts to reduce immigration and restrict trade would thwart innovation, not stimulate it.

But it was John Murphy and the Chamber that took aim at Trump on Twitter while the candidate was giving a trade policy speech in June. The next day Trump responded both on Twitter and in person, saying the Chamber is “totally controlled” by special interests.

As for Clinton, both the Chamber and the Business Roundtable have criticized her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that she once supported that is supported by President Obama.

“When we hear candidates criticize those past trade agreements, and this future trade agreement which would allow us to reach literally hundreds of millions of new customers, we think that’s a problem for American competitiveness and our ability to create jobs here at home,” Murphy says.