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Trump disbands biz councils
Donald Trump was on Thursday forced to disband two key business advisory councils after some members of the panels rebuked the US President for his incendiary remarks on the Virginia violence in which he apparently defended white nationalists.
Washington: Donald Trump was on Thursday forced to disband two key business advisory councils after some members of the panels rebuked the US President for his incendiary remarks on the Virginia violence in which he apparently defended white nationalists.
The abrupt decision came after the Strategic and Policy Forum, comprised of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, PepsiCo's Indian-origin CEO Indra Nooyi, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, decided to abandon it.
The Strategic and Policy Forum and the White House Manufacturing Jobs Initiative were both dissolved amid a string of resignations from the chief executives of top American firms over his "ambiguous" response to the violence in Virginia.
Trump had established the Manufacturing Advisory Council in January after his swearing-in while the 16-member Strategic and Policy Forum was set up in December when he was the president-elect. "Rather than putting pressure on the business people of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" Trump said in a tweet.
As many as 11 CEOs in the advisory councils have quit so far. A majority of them resigned after criticism mounted over Trump's less-than-encouraging response to the weekend violence in Charlottesville (Virginia), where a car rammed into a crowd peacefully protesting against the rally by white supremacists, killing a 32-year-old woman. Trump in his remarks had blamed both sides for the violence.
