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Following a number of CEOs pulling out of President Trump's American Manufacturing Council and Strategic and Policy Forum, President Trump tweeted that the initiatives have been ended:
Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!
The CEOs of Merck, Intel, 3M, and other companies had already left:
3M Co. Chief Executive Officer Inge Thulin stepped down from the White House's manufacturing council, adding to the corporate exodus as the backlash grows to President Donald Trump's ambivalent response to racially-charged violence in Virginia over the weekend.
Thulin joined the White House panel in January "to advocate for policies that align with our values and encourage even stronger investment and job growth -- in order to make the United States stronger, healthier and more prosperous," the CEO said Wednesday in a statement tweeted by 3M. "After careful consideration, I believe the initiative is no longer an effective vehicle for 3M to advance these goals."
Update: The members of the Strategic and Policy Forum reportedly disbanded the group before President Trump's tweet:
The quick sequence began late Wednesday morning when Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of the Blackstone Group and one of Mr. Trump's closest confidants in the business community, organized a conference call for members of the president's Strategic and Policy Forum. On the call, the chief executives of some of the largest companies in the country debated how to proceed. After a discussion among a dozen prominent C.E.O.s, the decision was made to abandon the group altogether, said people with knowledge of the details of the call.
Also at Bloomberg:
Trump made the announcement on Twitter, less than an hour after one of the groups was said to be planning to inform the White House that it would break up. [...] Trump appeared to be making an effort to get ahead of the news as the councils began to disintegrate. The strategy forum, which is led by Blackstone Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman, planned to inform the White House Wednesday before making the announcement public, according to another person familiar with the matter, who wasn't authorized to discuss the news publicly.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:24AM (2 children)
After 5-6 of them said "fuck you trump", they had a conference call and decided to all quit. Trump tried to get ahead of the news by dissolving the council.
/ was on the fence about Trump
// didn't vote for him
/// supporting Nazis put me firmly in the "fuck you asshole" camp.
//// he will never get my support back.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @02:17AM (1 child)
So, you just believe the MSM who claims those protesting the statue's removal were nazis? You are aware that trump denounced the violence from extremists on both the alt-right and alt-left?
Did you swear not to vote for dems when they refused to denounce BLM, even as one of their own shot up cops in Dallas?
What about when BLM blocked a road, delaying an ambulance causing the death of a 4 year old girl?
It's interesting to see your bias. The left who's support, even financially, for antifa and BLM who violently throw bricks and swing bike locks into people's heads aren't worthy of a "fuck you" and perpetual loss of support. But failing to go along with the MSM and label a largely peaceful protest as "Nazis" is somehow worthy of perpetual "fuck you"s.
I hope you some day recognize your hypocrisy. However, I'm not holding my breath. The left thrive on cognitive dissonance. Communists even had a word for their way of life, "Inversion of reality", indeed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:28PM
I wish you could understand how transparent and stupid the moral equivalence game looks. Trump is a vile human being who is racist and supports the KKK. His dad was in the KKK and Trump was investigated and it was discovered he discriminated against renting to black people.
Your last paragraph is shockingly out of touch and obviously projecting your own issues on to your "enemies". I wonder if deep down in your subconscious the truth just sits there, eating away at your soul.