TPM - Trump One-Ups The CEOs Fleeing His Jobs Panels By Disbanding Them

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-disbands-jobs-panels-charlottesville

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 16, 2017 1:28 PM

As CEOs continued to drop out of the White House manufacturing jobs panel over President Donald Trump’s failure to place sole blame on white nationalists for the deadly attack in Charlottesville over the weekend, the President on Wednesday announced he was disbanding two White House jobs panels in an apparent attempt to pre-empt further defections.

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

His tweet followed announcements from the CEOs of Campbell’s Soup and 3M that they would depart his Manufacturing Jobs Initiative. Trump’s announcement was also preceded by a New York Times report that said the CEOs on his Strategic and Policy Forum were preparing to disband that panel over his Charlottesville comments, too.

As of Wednesday afternoon, seven business leaders had quit Trump’s manufacturing council. Four CEOs and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka had already announced their resignations from the panel earlier in the week.

“Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville. I believe the President should have been – and still needs to be – unambiguous on that point,” Campbell’s CEO Denise Morrison said in a statement announcing her resignation from the council. “Following yesterday’s remarks from the President, I cannot remain on the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative. I will continue to support all efforts to spur economic growth and advocate for the values that have always made America great.”


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[dalton99a]

1. CEOs are deeply hurt - weeping uncontrollably

[COLGATE4]

2. This from the same asshole who yesterday tweeted how

he'd have no problem replacing them - thousands waiting to join, etc. etc.

[leftstreet]

8. That's right! There are 1000s waiting to join!

I forgot all about that. Since yesterday

[Doodley]

3. Trump knows that his time is almost up.

[bdamomma]

4. just a question

do you think trump was banking that CEO's would bail out on him?? or is this a ploy for don the con to screw them all. after all he is hellbent to getting revenge on people and being the ultimate dic............tator. .

[leftynyc]

12. Not at all

This was donnie claiming "she didn't break up with me, I broke up with her".

[bdamomma]

14. he is such a sad little man.

nt

[tblue37]

15. In fact, the CEOs told Axios they had decided to disband *before* Trump tried

to take credit--which is his standard tactic, to claim credit for what others do.

[leftynyc]

16. To the surprise of nobody

with a triple digit IQ.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. He couldn't let the business community leave him - POS...

...he is repulsive.....

[fierywoman]

6. This is the action of a spineless chicken shit.

[frazzled]

7. What gets disbanded next?

Entire government agencies? The administration itself? He won't be happy until it's just him on a gold throne, with Ivanka and Jared as courtiers.

Sign on the door: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

[tblue37]

9. Preemptively "firing" them so they can't embarrass him by quitting. nt

[GusBob]

11. "you can't quit, you 're fired" lol

[Blue_Adept]

10. Supposedly neither of these groups actually met for anything

Just more "branding" on Trump's part.

[malaise]

13. Too late

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah