America’s top CEOs are firing Donald Trump.
To be technically correct, they are quitting Trump’s American Manufacturing Council because they are recognizing this president is an empty, blustering suit.
At least six have left Trump’s council in the last week in the aftermath of his failure for more than 48 hours to call out white nationalists and self-proclaimed Nazis whose alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., resulted in scores of injuries and three deaths – those of a counter-protester mowed down when a Nazi sympathizer roared his car into the crowd and two police officers patrolling the violence from a helicopter that crashed. Instead on Saturday the president decried hate “on many sides” – and he doubled down on that Tuesday afternoon.
The first CEO to jump, on Monday morning, was Merck & Co. Chief Executive Ken Frazier, who noted: “America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.”
Trump took 54 minutes to send Frazier a mocking tweet, noting that Frazier will now “have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!”