Tag: CEOs

Trump vs. The Business Community

The following article by Steve Chapman was posted on the Creators website August 20, 2017:

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Most business executives fumed and groused for the eight years Barack Obama was in the White House. He was a former community organizer who had never met a payroll, and those in the corporate boardrooms thought he was no friend of free enterprise.

In 2010, New York real estate and media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman said Obama’s “demonization of business” was discouraging investment, sapping job growth and generally creating an “economic Katrina.” Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Technology Association, called Obama “the most anti-business president” in his lifetime. Former General Electric Chairman Jack Welch implored the president, “Stop it. You can’t go industry by industry … through intimidation, business by business by business.” Continue reading “Trump vs. The Business Community”

Trump Labels CEOs Who Left Advisory Panel as ‘Grandstanders’

The following article article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website August 15, 2017:

President used same insult to describe fired FBI Director James Comey

President Donald Trump says he has many potential replacements for the CEOs who quit his American Manufacturing Council. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

President Donald Trump labeled as “grandstanders” the corporate executives who left a White House advisory council after he opted against quickly disavowing white supremacist groups following the weekend’s race-based violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The president used a late-morning post Tuesday on his favorite social media site to lash out at the chief executives of Merck, Under Armor and Intel. All three a day earlier announced they were leaving the President’s American Manufacturing Council in protest after Trump did not immediately — and clearly — condemn the Klu Klux Klan, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.

Trump had a message for Merck’s Kenneth Frazier, Under Armour’s Kevin Plank and Intel’s Brian Krzanich. “For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place,” he tweeted. Continue reading “Trump Labels CEOs Who Left Advisory Panel as ‘Grandstanders’”