"You folks don't need to worry.
"You folks don't make so much noise," he said before continuing.
"You folks don't make so much noise," he said into the microphone.
"You folks don't know what it's like to do DVD commentaries!," Mr. Whedon mock-moans at one point.
"I know some of you folks don't like to hear when we say this is a bear-market situation," he said.
Later, during their evaluation, Larry Humphrey, a fuel specialist with the federal Bureau of Land Management in Arizona, said, "Overall, you folks did real well".
Donald Trump extended an olive branch to the titans of technology on Wednesday, telling them his goal is "to help you folks do well" at a meeting at his New York headquarters.
"Is it possible that there's so much conflict of interest here that all you folks don't even realize that you're helping people that you're associated with?" Representative Cliff Stearns, Republican of Florida, asked Mr. Paulson at the July 16 hearing.
Even if Trump now affects to be a friend of his country's cutting-edge companies ("I'm here to help you folks do well," he told this week's gathering of big cheeses from Facebook, Amazon, Google and the rest), the anti-modern tenor of the campaign that won him the presidency says much more.
