Three CEOs resign from Trump council over Charlottesville

[Catatonic]

Reuters Article

The chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid response to weekend violence at a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The AFL-CIO, a federation of labor unions that represent 12.5 million workers, said it was considering pulling its representative on the committee.

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[newfie]

under armour ? sounds like a good time to tax their imports from china.

Merck price gouging?

intel ? Government buys a lot of computers.

 

[bottomups]

I'm sure Chump could get the CEO of Southern Pride Flag Company to replace one of them on the council.

 

[bottomups]

President Donald Trump on Monday attacked the CEO of Merck for resigning from the president’s manufacturing council over Trump’s response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, snarkily tweeting that Ken Frazier will now have more time to reduce drug costs.

Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck, announced his withdrawal from the council earlier Monday in a tweet from the global health care company’s account.

Trump attacks Frazier, who happens to be African American. No mention of the other white guys. Go figure!

 

[It will be fine]

And another one down. Scott Paul president of the Alliance of American Manufacturing. Jobs jobs jobs! So much winning!

 

[It will be fine]

Campbell's soup bails too.

 

[Sportello]

Trump took his ball and went home.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/897869174323728385

 

[Jkloc420]

it is ok most of them endorsed hillary

 

[bbsam]

it is ok most of them endorsed hillary

Why does that have anything to do with anything?

 

[Jkloc420]

Why does that have anything to do with anything?

a lot

 

[Jkloc420]

they were just there for show and i doubt they had any constructive way of bringing jobs back or building new plants. Playing both sides

 

[Jkloc420]

look at merck and how much they charge for drugs

 

[bbsam]

Trump abruptly ends manufacturing council after CEOs disband strategy and policy forum

Sounds like the president decided to dismiss them--AFTER they decided to disband. What a tool.

 

[bbsam]

look at merck and how much they charge for drugs

Only Merck? Should the government step in and regulate? Why isn't the market taking care of that?

 

[Jkloc420]

Only Merck? Should the government step in and regulate? Why isn't the market taking care of that?

we had this argument before remember

 

[Jkloc420]

Only Merck? Should the government step in and regulate? Why isn't the market taking care of that?

we subdise Europe, so are prices cant jacked up, the fda is another problem

 

[bbsam]

we had this argument before remember

Not an argument. I'm wondering if we might actually agree.

 

[Catatonic]

I'm wondering if we might actually agree.

I say disagree ... simply on principle!

 

[bbsam]

I say disagree ... simply on principle!

Nobody cares what you think.

 

[Catatonic]

Nobody cares what you think.

Especially me!