From ABC News on Twitter:
And it is just breaking on MSNBC as I write this post, that the CEO of Campbell’s has resigned from the council! Nice.
Update: 1:19pm ET — MSNBC reporting that Trump has disbanded both this manufacturing council and a second similar business council:
Update 2: From Clio2 in the comments:
tRump lies again, according to this report on RawStory: this and another advisory council both decided on their own to disband, then tRump tried to claim credit.
Loser!
Wow. This is reminiscent of Donnie Jr.’s decision to release his Trump-Russia emails minutes before The New York Times was going to publish them. From Raw Story:
President Donald Trump is claiming he dissolved two councils of CEOs after multiple CEOs resigned from one panel and the other chose to disband altogether.
After the resignations of three executives from President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, Axios.com was contacted by executives from the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum, who said they had decided to disband.
“CEOs on President Trump’s top outside business-advisory group decided Wednesday to disband amid the tumult over his response to this weekend’s white-nationalist violence in Charlottesville, top business sources tell Axios,” said Allen on Wednesday.
Moments after Axios made the announcement that the Strategy and Policy Forum is disbanding, President Trump tweeted that he was ending both groups, apparently trying to take credit for the executives’ decision.
(The following might now be moot, now that the council has disbanded:)
Please keep up the pressure on the remaining CEOs. I saw an image on twitter of a can of Campbell’s Soup, the flavor of which was “Treason”. That seems like a great strategy — CEO’s will resign if they think their brand will forever be attached to the hatred and racism that is Trump. But you can also write to the CEOs or tweet them directly:
CEO contact list:
Harris Corp. (Bill Brown): https://www.harris.com/about/contact-us
United Technologies (Greg Hayes) inquiries/concerns phone#:
(860) 728-7000
Jeff Immelt (GE) twitter: @JeffImmelt
Dana Inc. (Jim Kamsickas) twitter: @DanaHoldingCorp
Boeing (Dennis Muilenberg) twitter: @Boeing
Caterpillar (Doug Oberhelman) twitter: @CaterpillarInc
International Paper Co (Mark Sutton) twitter: @IntlPaperCo
Corning (Wendell Weeks) twitter: @Corning