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Just yesterday: > "For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!"

by _1 9y ago

Just yesterday: > "For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/897478270442143744 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/89747827044214374... How many had already quit and this was just to stop further embarrassing himself?

yincrash 9y ago
According to the article the entire Strategy & Policy Forum disbanded beforehand, and he tweeted that to save face.
zitterbewegung 9y ago
Twelve quit before it was disbanded. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Manufacturing_Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Manufacturing_Council and sort by Membership status.
- egwynn 9y ago
  Might be worth noting that three of those twelve left because they left their jobs with their respective companies, and one in protest of a different matter in Juny. It looks like eight left in the past two days in protest of Charlottesville stuff.
powertower 9y ago
> The President’s Strategic and Policy Forum was conceived as a bi-partisan group of business leaders called to serve our country by providing independent feedback and perspectives directly to the President on accelerating economic growth and job creation in the United States. This "Strategic and Policy Forum" existed for the sole purpose of promoting the individual company interests... Such as how to best offshore the work-force, pay less taxes, etc. This backhanded manipulation and dealings did not work on Trump as well as it did on the previous presidents. So now they are disbanding (as they serve no purpose), and using this moment to attempt to discredit the person they could not manipulate.
- threatofrain 9y ago
  One would assume that the White House would meet with corporate leaders, who undoubtedly have interests with regards to taxes and offshore money or labor laws, to find the intersection of interests.

by _1 9y ago

yincrash 9y ago

According to the article the entire Strategy & Policy Forum disbanded beforehand, and he tweeted that to save face.

zitterbewegung 9y ago

Twelve quit before it was disbanded. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Manufacturing_Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Manufacturing_Council and sort by Membership status.

egwynn 9y ago
Might be worth noting that three of those twelve left because they left their jobs with their respective companies, and one in protest of a different matter in Juny. It looks like eight left in the past two days in protest of Charlottesville stuff.

powertower 9y ago

> The President’s Strategic and Policy Forum was conceived as a bi-partisan group of business leaders called to serve our country by providing independent feedback and perspectives directly to the President on accelerating economic growth and job creation in the United States. This "Strategic and Policy Forum" existed for the sole purpose of promoting the individual company interests... Such as how to best offshore the work-force, pay less taxes, etc. This backhanded manipulation and dealings did not work on Trump as well as it did on the previous presidents. So now they are disbanding (as they serve no purpose), and using this moment to attempt to discredit the person they could not manipulate.

threatofrain 9y ago
One would assume that the White House would meet with corporate leaders, who undoubtedly have interests with regards to taxes and offshore money or labor laws, to find the intersection of interests.