Trump Ends C.E.O. Advisory Councils as Main Group Acts to Disband

[ATL Ebony]

The president announced that he is dismantling the Manufacturing Council and Strategy & Policy Forum amid reports of several CEOs departure following the events of Charlottesville.

read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/business/trumps-council-ceos.html

@realDonaldTrump

Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum,
I am ending both. Thank you all!
10:14 AM - 16 Aug 2017

Some Responses (lots more):

@TalbertSwan 1h1 hour ago
Replying to @realDonaldTrump

Pressure wasn't on the CEO's. You made it easy for them. They didn't want to be associated with supporting white supremacy

The pressure was on YOU! You didn't want to be pressured into being a moral and decent human being by standing against vile racial hatred.

Racism & murder r unequivocally reprehensible & r not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville -Denise Morrison

CEO's of Merck, Campbell's Soup, Under Armour, 3M, Intel, the AFL-CIO & others were right 2 distance themselves from 1 who supports bigotry

It's too late to play clean up 45, you have been exposed as the nation's alt-right white supremacist neo-nazi president. HEIL to the Chief!!

In classic Trump style, you shut down the council so the rest couldn't quit. "You can't quit! YOU'RE FIRED!" PATHETIC!!!

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Would you just/i resign NOW, please!

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Trump si a sad clown

HE disbanded it not to save them the pressure, but to save himself the embarrassment.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. This is a huge back down, I am gonna celebrate it as such.

In actually, like much of Trump's plans, teh council had never even met. He just wanted to point to something and say he did it, and take all the credit.
But still....someone in the WH had enough sense to see that leaking resignations from the council was bad bad pr.

[PoorMonger]

3. Ha!

More spoiled brat tactics - though he was surely only stemming the tide of people that were probably already calling the WH privately and warning they were gonna withdraw today.

[Gothmog]

4. Trump claimed that there dozens of people waiting to join this group

[ATL Ebony]

5. He's so delusional but to be on the safe side he disbanded committee to avoid further embarrassment.

LOL, he'd be funny if he wasn't so pathetic and dangerous.