Trump Bashes 'Grandstanders' Who Quit His Panel In Wake Of Charlottesville
Source: Talking Points Memo
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 15, 2017 11:54 AM
President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday morning in a tweet against three CEOS who left his manufacturing council over his initial failure to condemn white supremacists in the wake of this weekends deadly attack in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump boasted that those who leave the White House council would be easily replaced, and suggested that the CEOs who quit in protest of his attempt to avoid condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis were simply grandstanding.
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Three CEOs had announced they would leave the council by the time Trump published his tweet. About 15 minutes afterward, a fourth CEO, Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, announced he would leave the council, too.
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OutaHere
(53 posts)His agenda is to give billionaires more power, period.
Resist or die.
Democrats_win
(6,539 posts)Trump ran a business of just a hand full of people and he didn't pay his bills. He doesn't know manure about business or government.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)The ones who have since said they plan to remain claim they still want to contribute to the discussion. That whole "Council" is complete bullshit because Drumpf doesn't give a damn about anyone or anything else but himself and his smoke and mirrors companies.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)are running the government anyway, or as much as they can get away with.
Any CEO who isn't already on board with their agenda and who voices an opposing viewpoint will be ignored.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)despite them owning Georgia-Pacific, which is a huge manufacturing company.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)in the shadows, like the anti-American bottom dweller scum they are.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....that disagrees with him are "grandstanders"!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)is anybody that takes away 1 second of positive attention from Trump, or causes 1 second of negative attention for Trump
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)If you disapprove of Trump and act accordingly, you're a grandstander - says the actual grandstander.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)is accusing others of "grandstanding."
NCjack
(10,279 posts)the rest from leaving.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)William Seger
(10,779 posts)"... and I would have appointed someone else! Unfair!"
rickford66
(5,524 posts)Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers.