Business
These CEOs Are Sticking With Trump
Citing his conscience, a fifth executive quits the president's manufacturing council. But plenty remain.
August 15 2017 5:47 PM EST
August 16 2017 6:52 AM EST
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Citing his conscience, a fifth executive quits the president's manufacturing council. But plenty remain.
After Donald Trump initially argued that "many sides" were responsible for this weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Va. -- where neo-Nazis and white nationalists contributed to the deaths of three people -- some CEOs who were part of the president's manufacturing council quit in response. Following a furious reaction to Trump's comments, the president finally condemned racists, while flatly reading off a teleprompter on Monday.
Of course, the megalomaniac in chief couldn't stop there. He not only retweeted an image of a CNN journalist being crushed by a train (days after Charlottesville counterprotester Heather Heyer was run down by a white supremacist), retweeted a story about him considering a pardon of disgraced racist Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, and then blasted the executives who quit his council.
\u201cFor every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1502810468
Trump's latest insult prompted a fifth executive -- following the CEOs of Merck, Intel, Under Armour, and Tesla -- to leave the manufacturing council. Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, had enough.
\u201cI'm resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it's the right thing for me to do.\u201d— Scott Paul (@Scott Paul) 1502811448
Many CEOs on the manufacturing council remain, though -- thankfully, Twitter is here to tell us who. Maybe some emails/phone calls are in order?
\u201cEveryone on twitter!! Please help make this list of CEO on @realDonaldTrump business council RED AGAIN! Retweet\u201d— ALT-immigration (@ALT-immigration) 1502766881