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Merck CEO Resigns From President's Council
Merck CEO resigns from Trump's American Manufacturing Council, citing 'responsibility to take a stand against intolerance'
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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Donald Trump immediately responds, like the petulant middle-schooler he is:
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Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!
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Re: Merck CEO Resigns From President's Council
So Sad.
He just can't help himself.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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The CEO of Merck he can criticize right away.
White supremacists, not so much
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Re: Merck CEO Resigns From President's Council
Fourth executive walks away from Trump after Charlottesville
The president of a manufacturing association has become the fourth executive to walk away from President Trump after he took two days to denounce white supremacy.
Scott Paul, head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, quit Trump's manufacturing council on Tuesday. He said on Twitter it was "the right thing for me to do."
He joined the CEOs of Merck, Under Armour and Intel, who all left the council Monday. The group, which Trump established in January with about two dozen members, is supposed to meet occasionally to offer the president advice on job growth.
Trump said on Twitter that he has other CEOs ready to step in and that "grandstanders" should not have joined the manufacturing council in the first place.
The aftermath of the violence at a neo-Nazi and white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, represents the latest break between Trump, who sold himself as a businessman president, and leaders of corporate America.
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