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These CEOs Are Sticking With Trump

These CEOs Are Sticking With Trump

Citing his conscience, a fifth executive quits the president's manufacturing council. But plenty remain.

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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.

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.

Many CEOs on the manufacturing council remain, though -- thankfully, Twitter is here to tell us who. Maybe some emails/phone calls are in order?

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Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.