Trump attacks Merck CEO for stepping down from manufacturing council in protest

[workinclasszero]

Trump attacks Merck CEO for stepping down from manufacturing council in protest
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigns from the president's American Manufacturing Council in protest of Trump's response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump immediately responds by tweeting that Frazier will now have more time to "LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!"
Sarah Whitten Published 2 Hours Ago


Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned Monday from the president's American Manufacturing Council in protest of President Donald Trump's response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Trump immediately blasted the drug executive on Twitter.

"As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism," Frazier, the only African American CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, wrote in a tweet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/merck-ceo-resigns-from-trumps-american-manufacturing-council.html

[Brother Buzz]

1. Merck stock spikes after CEO leaves Trump council

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/346457-merck-stock-spike-after-ceo-leaves-trump-council-over-charlottesville

[ornotna]

2. I hope we survive this shit

It's not gonna be a smooth ride.

[workinclasszero]

3. First America has to face the fact that a white racist nazi/klan supporter

is our president and he has surrounded himself with like minded fascists like Bannon.

Then, what are we going to do about that?

[leftstreet]

4. When will the rest of "Trump's CEOs" quit?

Link to tweet

[workinclasszero]

5. Somebody said you either Resist or Partake

I find it rather shocking to see Richard Tumka from the AFL-CIO name on that list though.

[leftstreet]

6. I'm actually not shocked

but that's a whole other story

His twitter feed is filling up with people asking why he hasn't made a statement. He's busy tweeting about NAFTA. Tone deaf

[Wellstone ruled]

7. This might be the final straw

for many CEO's and their support of the POS President. Ken Frazier is revered as a model CEO in the Pharmacy Business .

Keep it up Dipstick,you don't have many bridges to burn.

[workinclasszero]

8. Notice Trump attacks a black businessman by name

But refuses to attack the KKK and American Nazi alt-right even after they kill an innocent American citizen in a horrendous terrorist attack modeled on ISIS attacks in France and Britain???

[Gothmog]

9. Trump's feelings were hurt

[UTUSN]

10. Doesn't sound like the "love" and "affection" he's reading right now!1