Anti-Trust

The Sherman Act of 1890 forbade combinations in restraint of trade, although it did not distinguish between good and bad trusts.

According to Google, this picture from the Twilight Zone is related to good and bad trusts. So... we'll say it's because he's a trust. An ugly trust. But even if he wasn't ugly, he'd still be outlawed by the Sherman Act.

1. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 lengthened the Sherman Act’s lists of business practices that were deemed objectionable, including price discrimination and interlocking directorates. It also sought to exempt labor and agricultural organizations from antitrust persecution, while legalizing strikes and peaceful protesting.

The protesters celebrated their right to be such with the Dance Strike, the most joyous of all forms of civil disobedience.