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posted by takyon on Wednesday August 16 2017, @05:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the pressure-relief dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @08:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @08:16PM (#554914)

    well-[paid] jobs [...] replaced by not nearly as many minimum wage jobs while [O'Bummer] was in office

    Yeah. Any Dumbocrat who had the top gig any time in the last 3 decades has been a Neoliberal.
    Slick Willie's Five Major Achievements Were Longstanding GOP Objectives [googleusercontent.com] (orig)[1] [truth-out.org]

    Additionally, Slick Willie queered the way "unemployment" is counted.
    Since before the start of O'Bummer's (undeserved) 2nd term, The Labor Non-Participation Rate[2] has remained above 22 percent. [shadowstats.com]

    [1] Can any site coder tell me why the content on that site appears twice on each page in an HTML-only presentation?
    Does it look less dumb with stylesheets?

    [2] ...which was called The Unemployment Rate before Slick Willie.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 17 2017, @11:22AM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday August 17 2017, @11:22AM (#555227) Homepage Journal

    1) Dunno. I don't feel like source diving before I've finished my first cup of coffee.

    2) Looks fine with style sheets. You really should come into the 21st century with us.

    --
    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @07:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @07:49PM (#556452)

      I pretty much always find that styling added to web pages makes them LESS readable.

      I especially appreciate (NOT) those nitwits who put styling in their HTML -and- do more styling via CSS--and don't check the HTML by itself, often yielding stupid shit like black text on a dark background.

      The sites where the entire page looks like a WAR IS OVER headline with a giant font are especially trippy.
      Note to self: Bookmark the next one of those you come upon to save as an example of how NOT to do things.

      There are 2 radio stations that I listen to which did their schedule grid pages with CSS instead of a table.
      I access those pages via archive.li, which interprets the CSS for me.
      Elsewhere, I simply block all CSS.

      If site devs would put CSS into nice packages with essential-stuff/nice-to-have/only-chintz separated from each other and with descriptive names on the CSS files, that would be nice.
      I pretty much never find anything like that, so I just block it all by default.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]