CEOs on President Donald Trump’s business advisory councils today jumped ship via hastily-issued statements condemning hatred and racism. A flood of resignations from Presidential advisory councils followed Trump’s bizarrely candid support of the Nazis and white supremacists who marched with torches in Charlottesville this past weekend. As news of the CEO resignations spread, Trump tweeted that it was he who’d decided to disband, not the execs.
Trump’s response? You’re not dumping me. I’m dumping you!
Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2017
Anyway, these CEOs can’t wash the Trump stank off fast enough. Quite a rebuke for the “billionaire” president who billed himself as a business genius and master dealmaker, isn’t it? Actual business leaders shunning him, en masse.
From CNBC just now:
President Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum has disbanded, a member told CNBC.
The business advisory council made up of top business leaders is separate from Trump’s manufacturing council, which several business leaders left this week.
The business backlash to the president follows his tepid response to violence at a white nationalist rally over the weekend.
More news floating around right now on this.
With Campbell’s Soup CEO quitting, here’s an updated list of members of Trump’s manufacturing council. pic.twitter.com/cWKMseFcNX
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) August 16, 2017
BREAKING: Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison quits Manufacturing Council: “Racism & murder are unequivocally reprehensible.”
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) August 16, 2017
Trump CEO Strategy Council Is Said to Be Disbanding After Exodus https://t.co/XqIU3uDw7j via @bpolitics
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 16, 2017
BREAKING: @CNBC confirms that @realDonaldTrump “Strategic and Policy Forum” (different from Manufacturing Council) has disbanded
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) August 16, 2017
“rather than coming out and admitting that nazis are worse than not nazis, I’m going tell everyone to go fuck themselves" https://t.co/t9eiW5LTds
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 16, 2017
Why it stings Trump: Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum served as Trump’s most visible connections to those with $$ he respects
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 16, 2017
When you're so awful even cronyists don't want to hang around to beg for money.
— Scott Shackford (@SShackford) August 16, 2017
They’ve got to be approaching a critical mass where the CEOs left on the council start realizing how bad it’d look to be the last one out.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 16, 2017
now all the pressure falls on your infrastructure council, which has also had zero meetings and done zero things. https://t.co/QIU18Q49Yf
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 16, 2017
This is a lie. They all quit first. Heard that Jared just got the call before Trump tweeted. https://t.co/QomqfbDo0B
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) August 16, 2017
EVERYBODY YOU INVITED TO A PARTY: I won't be coming to your party
YOU: I've decided to just cancel the party
— Mark Berman (@markberman) August 16, 2017
Not even 26 hours apart. pic.twitter.com/TBTxqJImtj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2017
there's always an old tweet
always https://t.co/VE7l9lFeXV
— Mark Berman (@markberman) August 16, 2017
26 hours between these pic.twitter.com/SFxVZvdQ96
— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) August 16, 2017
Rather than forcing my beautiful Canadian girlfriend to drive all the way down from Montreal, I will not be attending prom https://t.co/eraBMerjDu
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) August 16, 2017
JUST IN: Statement from business leaders that were part of President Trump's strategy council, which has disbanded https://t.co/JOVqUwFe6Y pic.twitter.com/CT2a3XympM
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) August 16, 2017
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky announces he's leaving Trump's manufacturing council — but only after Trump already disbanded it.
— Gregory Korte (@gregorykorte) August 16, 2017