President Calvin Coolidge, in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on the role of the press in a free market economy, stated in his usual matter-of-fact tone, “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world.”

One hundred years have passed since Coolidge’s remarks, and Americans are still profoundly concerned with prosperity. But, when it comes to investing, many Americans’ financial interests and core values are being undermined by left-leaning political agendas shoved into the C-suites of American corporations from abroad. Thankfully, President Donald Trump has acted to ensure that Americans’ profound concerns are respected in their investments.

Millions of Americans—whether through their 401(k)s, pension funds, IRAs, or other financial instruments—are invested in publicly traded companies. These companies have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to provide goods and services to the public with one priority above all else: to maximize the return on investment to their owners, the shareholders.

Yet, for years, two foreign-owned proxy advisory services have pressed American companies into contentious issues like discriminatory........

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