The three CEO's...
 

Kevin Plank CEO of Under Armour, Brian Krzanich CEO of Intel, and Kenneth Frazier CEO of Merck, walked away from Trump's White House Manufacturing Council on Monday.

So which of the three was personally attacked by the Dickweed In Chief on Twitter? Kenneth Frazier.

“Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!”

Why Frazier and not the other two CEO's? The other two are white CEO's. And on top of this, Trump decided to rip Frazier over drug pricing. Which Trump has obviously not seen as a problem in any of his pronouncements on the need to repeal and replace the ACA.

Every week we're advised that Trump had his worst week yet. When will it be a bad enough week to do something about it? Ask Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.

Their calculation remains purely political and devoid of higher principle. As long as they think they'll lose more votes from Trump's base than they would gain from those who disapprove of Trump (or as long as they believe they can still get tax cuts for the rich with his assistance), they'll defend their Trumpenfuhrer.

Agreed. But when do they look at Trump's own losses from his base. If one can believe David Duke's ripping into Trump yesterday...the white supremacist and white nationalist cretins are already gone.

I'm not so sure. They've been given a seat at the table by Trump and have nowhere else to go in the search for acceptance/relevance. If he fires Bannon, Miller and Gorka, however, all bets are off.

The CEO of the Alliance of American Manufacturers just bailed from Trump's manufacturing council. That's now four CEO's to bail on der Trumpenfuhrer.

Predictably, the grandstander-in-chief calls them grandstanders.

He's beyond reprehensible.

There again, from a practical standpoint how does that help anybody.

Themselves in the group they hang with maybe.

But, certainly none of the issues they were needing to deal with which is basically jobs in distressed areas.

Like they were going to build a plant in Detroit or something anyway.

It's proof positive that Trump's acquiescence to neo-Nazis in his base and on his White House staff isn't helpful in enacting his agenda. There was a time not a few months ago that American business feared a negative tweet from Trump. Now they're telling him to fuck off.

I suspect it is more that they fear the left wing media and the left wing socialites they like to hang with.

Meanwhile those in need are getting screwed again by this side show the same way the Democrats have screwed them for the past 50 years.

Proof is in the pudding and the Democratic control of the collapsed cities should be evidence to anybody who is not so indoctrinated that they will not see.

How many more generations are you going to go with this racism thing before you realize it is not the problem and hasn't been for a couple of generations anyway.

WTF??? You're even more clueless than your Dear Leader.

Being backstabbed by the fake potus's rubber prop knife has become an honorific of sorts.

"Collapsed cities"? Dude, stop reading Breitbarts, Drudge and Infowars. You sound ignorant.

So by your analogy, the fact that Democratic mayors run prosperous cities like Charlottesville, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, etc means their voters are so indoctrinated they won't see? God you're an idiot.

The vibrancy of American cities economically supports your Red State shitholes, snowflake. Look what Brownback did to Kansas by trying to implement your desired creed.

Another One Bites the Dust
 

Walmart’s chief executive issued a strong rebuke of President Trump’s response to the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.”

The criticism came in a statement that the retailer’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, emailed to employees Monday evening, which was reviewed by The New York Times. The statement was later posted on a company website.

“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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/b...g-council.html

That's now five CEO's who've told Trump to go phuck himself.

They never wanted to bring jobs back to America anyway. There total interest is in the next quarterly earnings report and nothing else.

You could kill every neo Nazi and KKK member in the world and it would not raise the standard of living of minorities 1 cent.

These guys could and don't. What a crock.

Cool. I think you should move to Detroit.

You first. Most large American cities have Democratic mayors and city councils and many are extremely successful and prosperous (Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, Boston ...) and others not (Detroit). Democratic politics has little to nothing to do with Detroit's demise.

While Dallas County is indeed blue, the City of Dallas (a subset) remains tinged with red.
Harris County (Houston) may be blue, but from personal experience I'd say Houston is redder than Dallas. Austin on the other hand has always been full of hippies.

True enough, but the mayors of all three are Democrats. Regardless, the notion that Detroit failed because of the Democrats is a Rush Limbaugh inspired meme.

With your closing sentence you just might have revealed your true stripes.

I hope so. It is a simple fact that the left uses racism as a tool to get elected, or make a living in the case of the race baiters. But, as a tool to improve the lives of minorities it is useless.

And Trump (and Richard Nixon, Reagan, and Papa Bush) didn't???

Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, also just quit Trump's advisory panel.

Who cares.

Trump. Yer boy got totally unhinged about all the CEO's bailing on him.

While I pretty much agree with what you just said, you missed my point.

In a way, you just supported Zero's point. :cool:

Only through your up-is-down, down-is-up glasses.:cool:

In the opposite way then. Either way, you did. :D

Just toss him a couple sardines, he gets weird when he's hungry. :rolleyes:

And now the CEO's of Campbell's Soup Co. and 3M have bailed from the Trumpenfuhrer's panel. MAGA, indeed. Pretty soon, the only people left on the panel will be Nazi armband manufacturers.:D

I predict brand boycotts if others do not follow suit and the only reason for them to hang around is for the Tax (cut) handouts. Besides DT and IT manufacture their products offshore anyway so where is their credibility to criticize the multi-nationals?

Too late for boycotts. It was just announced that Trump was forced to shut down both his Manufacturing Council and his Strategy & Policy Forum. For whatever reasons, these folks are uncomfortable advising a Nazi-sympathizer. Go figure.;)

Poor bastard had to shut them down to avoid further embarrassment. What an idiot.

A less biased take. :)

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/16/a-se...isbanding.html

OK, but same diff.

Members of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum have agreed to disband the group, sources told CNBC, as corporate backlash mounts against the president.

The business advisory council made up of top business leaders is separate from Trump's manufacturing council, which several business leaders left this week.

The business backlash to Trump follows his tepid response to violence at a white nationalist rally over the weekend, where one woman died and 19 people were injured after a car rammed into counterprotesters. On Tuesday, Trump appeared to equate torch-bearing white nationalists with the protesters who demonstrated against them.

President Donald Trump has scrapped plans for an infrastructure advisory council after two similar panels dissolved this week amid backlash to Trump from corporate America.

"The President's Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which was still being formed, will not move forward," a White House official told CNBC.

Trump signed an executive order to start setting up the council last month.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/trum...-dissolve.html

It seems nobody wants to be seen with the Nazi Sympathizer-in-Chief

Trump in the process of draining the swamp made it into a toxic cesspool unfit for humans.