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8/16/2017 7:20 am  #1


Well, Trump Got One Thing Right

 Donald Trump said that the CEOs leaving his advisory council were “leaving out of embarrassment.”

Absolutely goddamn right.
We are all embarrassed, Mr President.
You are a disgrace.



Walmart Chief Joins C.E.O. Protests

The chief executive of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, criticized President Trump in front of his 1.5 million American employees, widening a rift between the White House and the business community that has been growing since the weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.

“As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists,” Douglas McMillon, the Walmart C.E.O., wrote in a letter to employees late Monday.

The rebuke from Mr. McMillon came as six other business leaders stepped down from presidential advisory councils — including two late on Monday, the C.E.O.s of Intel and Under Armour — citing their own values as the primary motivation for distancing themselves from Mr. Trump.

The president hit back at his critics in the business world during a news conference at Trump Tower Tuesday. He spent several minutes lashing out at some of the most prominent executives in the country, saying that those who left his councils were “not taking their jobs seriously” and were “leaving out of embarrassment.”

The departures represent a rare spectacle in which prominent executives are looking for ways to pull back from an American president who campaigned, and won, partly on the strength of his pro-business stance. This has created an unusual calculus: Whether or not to stay on as advisers to a president, a role that traditionally is a coveted position with little to no attendant risk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/business/trump-councils-ceos.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

8/16/2017 8:07 am  #2


Re: Well, Trump Got One Thing Right

He spoke the truth - amazing !! 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

8/17/2017 4:44 pm  #3


Re: Well, Trump Got One Thing Right

News today that trump has abandoned his planned infrastructure council.

Guess CEOs are getting a little reluctant to jump onto the ship.

Well Donald did say "I alone" will fix things.


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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8/18/2017 6:56 am  #4


Re: Well, Trump Got One Thing Right

Some actually thought that the council would meet, discuss problems, and promote possible solutions to the government.

When they figured out, after they never had any meeting scheduled, that the whole thing was nothing more than a photo-op scam perpetrated by our 'business executive' president, they decided they didn't want to be part of the charade and Trump's nonexistent policy.

 

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