Of all the inane, delusional arguments that President Trump made during his campaign, perhaps the least implausible one—bear with me, it's a low bar—was that he was a savvy businessman who understands how to get deals done. Citing the success of his corporate empire, Trump frequently pledged to helm an administration that would create jobs on American soil and bring back those that had left for foreign pastures, crowing triumphantly about the job-preserving Carrier agreement he struck shortly after the election as a harbinger of things to come. (Even if the whole story was, in fact, not nearly as true as the American people were led to believe.)

Only two weeks into the Trump administration, that whole "first business-friendly president" shtick is crumbling with impressive speed and efficiency. On Sunday night, while you were watching the Atlanta Falcons crumble in similarly spectacular fashion, 97 companies—including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Uber, and other technology giants—filed an amicus brief in the legal battle against the president's Muslim ban, arguing that although they are not actually parties to the litigation, they have a strong interest in the outcome of which the appeals court should be aware. Guess what their primary rationale is? The ban, in practice, would destroy American jobs. From the brief:

Immigrants also fuel the growth of the economy as a whole. “When immigrants enter the labor force, they increase the productive capacity of the economy and raise GDP. Their incomes rise, but so do those of natives.” Immigrants do not take jobs away from U.S. citizens—they create them. Thus, immigration “expand[s] the American work-force, and encourage[s] more business start-ups”—ensuring that “[b]usinesses ranging from Apple Corporation to apple growers would be able to find the workers they need in America.”

The brief goes on to assert that the executive order directly harms the competitiveness of American companies—the exact thing that Trump promised his White House would not do.