People are defecting quickly over the past week from the Trump Admin as four CEO’s dropout from Manufacturing Council. But as POTUS Donnie questions their “Seriousness” of position, I have to question his as he is quickest to respond to negativity by attack then positivity of calm – PB/TK
Trump Rips CEOs Quitting Panels as AFL-CIO Joins Defectors’ List -By Jordyn Holman, Cynthia Koons, Josh Eidelson, and Jennifer Kaplan / Aug 15 2017
“They’re not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country,” the president said of the executives at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York Tuesday afternoon. “If you look at some of those people that you’re talking about, they’re outside of the country, they’re having a lot of their product made outside, if you look at Merck as an example.”
A 20-year-old Ohio man, James Alex Fields Jr., who was among those protesting the statue’s removal, has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of the woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
On Monday, Merck & Co.’s Kenneth Frazier said he was quitting the president’s manufacturing council as a matter of personal conscience after Trump failed to strongly condemn the white supremacist-led protests. Under Armour Inc.’s Kevin Plank and Intel Corp.’s Brian Krzanich said later in the day on Monday that they were also stepping down. Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, said on Tuesday that he was quitting the group, as it was “the right thing for me to do.”
Merck declined to comment on Trump’s remarks at the press conference. The company says on its website that it employs about 25,000 people in the U.S.
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