I posted that collection of statements by departing CEOs just a little late: Trump has dissolved the councils.
President Donald Trump dissolved two of his economic advisory councils Wednesday after a rash of CEOs resigned in the wake of his response to a white nationalist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, that occurred Saturday.
“Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both,” Trump tweeted. “Thank you all!”
He must be seething.
Trump’s tweet came just moments after two more executives announced their resignations from his Manufacturing Council Wednesday. Leaders of another council, called the Strategic and Policy Forum, said they were disbanding the body because the Charlottesville debate had become “a distraction” to their purpose.
“As our members have expressed individually over the past several days, intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country and are an affront to core American values,“ the group said in a statement. “We believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well-intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.”
“As such, the President and we are disbanding the Forum,” it added.
So, his administration is starting to collapse in on itself. Good. I hope he resigns by the end of the day.
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6 responses to “The first timbers fall”
It’s his way of saying “You can’t quit! You’re fired!”
Actually, I’m kind of surprised he didn’t say exactly that.
The Post says the CEOs decided to dissolve it after the press conference yesterday.
Perfectly consistent. The mass exodus reflects poorly on him. Therefore, he must immediately demonstrate that he doesn’t care about these councils anyway, and their resignations are nothing but empty gestures — quitting a position that he was “already” planning to eliminate.
I’ll bet a free beer that at some point he explicitly says that he had planned to eliminate these councils prior to Charlottesville.
Hah — I hadn’t read your comment #2 when I replied. But I’ll just revise my prediction: he will certainly claim that he was already going to dissolve the councils prior to their deciding to do so.
He’s slipping; he forgot to mention cutting the wage bill.
The pressure in his head must be immense. I’d hate to be close-by when it blows.
I suppose that is just rhetoric; these are intelligent people who probably know otherwise. I wish it were true – I dream that someday it will be true – but I no longer expect to see it in my lifetime (back in the 1970s, when I was a teen, I was naive enough to imagine we were headed in that direction. Silly me. The day after Ronald Reagan was elected, I just sat and cried, because I knew it wasn’t happening).