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« on: August 17, 2017, 05:23:35 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

Corporate America voices its strongest repudiation yet
of Trump as councils disband


By PARESH DAVE, JIM PUZZANGHERA and TRACEY LIEN | 4:20PM PDT - Wednesday, August 16, 2017

President Donald J. Trump meets with CEOs of manufacturing companies in the White House on February 23rd. — Photograph: Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency.
President Donald J. Trump meets with CEOs of manufacturing companies in the White House on February 23rd.
 — Photograph: Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency.


AMERICA's top business executives may have bristled over President Trump's ban on refugees, his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and his decision to bar transgender Americans from the military.

But it wasn't until the embattled president all but defended white supremacists in the aftermath of the deadly clashes over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, that the country's corporate elite decided they had had enough.

By Wednesday, so many executives had resigned from Trump's economic advisory and manufacturing councils, including the heads of General Electric Co., Intel Corp. and Campbell Soup Co., that the president announced on Twitter that he was disbanding the panels.

“Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!” Trump tweeted.

Some members pushed back on Trump's suggestion that the disbandment was the president's decision. JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief Jamie Dimon said the economic advisory council, known formally as the Strategic and Policy Forum, had already decided to end on its own.

Members began discussing dissolving the group after watching Trump's news conference on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter speaking on condition of anonymity.

Forum members organized a call for 11:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday to survey who wanted to stay in or out. The group overwhelmingly sought to shut the forum down, according to the source.

Leaders of consumer brands expressed concern about how their images could be tarnished, while heads of other corporations feared the effect Trump was having on the business climate. The group informed Trump of their decision, who agreed and posted his tweet, the source said.

The dissolution of the councils marks corporate America's strongest repudiation yet of Trump, who ascended to the White House touting himself as the first CEO president.

But instead of demonstrating a kinship with business leaders, the president has consistently put them on the defensive having to answer to White House policies seemingly out of step with mainstream values, and by extension, creating a risk to their brands.

Former Starbucks chief Howard Schultz was one of a handful of executives who criticized Trump's refugee ban in January. Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk quit the presidential business advisory council in June after Trump pulled out of the Paris climate agreement. And Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg both chided Trump last month for his move to forbid transgender Americans from serving in the military.

As strong as the backlash was to those White House policy decisions, they were not as fierce as the reaction to the president's remarks on the clashes between racist demonstrators and counter-protesters in Charlottesville.

Trump initially did not say that hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis were behind the violence, and on Tuesday, he again faulted “both sides” evenly — a contention at odds with local police accounts. The president also said there were “fine people” among a group of Tiki-torch-wielding marchers chanting anti-Semitic slogans on Friday night in Charlottesville.

“There's not enough spin in the world to justify [Trump's] position on this,” said Marlene Towns, a professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business.

“Generally, it's a bad idea to align your brand with the KKK and white nationalists. You don't need a PhD in marketing to arrive at that conclusion,” she added.

Past opposition to Trump's stances were at least partly driven by businesses' bottom lines. Why, for example, diminish climate change when green technology was ascendant or clamp down on immigration when so many firms rely on the global labor market?

This time, business leaders appear to be taking more of a moral high ground in rebuking the president's actions.

“America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal,” said Merck & Co. Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier, one of corporate America's leading black executives and the first member to quit the manufacturing council this week.

“As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism,” the pharmaceutical giant's chief continued.


Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier started the exodus from President Trump's business advisory councils, after he stepped down in protest of Trump's response to the Charlottesville, Virginia, violence. — Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier started the exodus from President Trump's business advisory councils, after he stepped down
in protest of Trump's response to the Charlottesville, Virginia, violence. — Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.


And Inge Thulin, chief executive of 3M Co., resigned on Wednesday, saying, “Sustainability, diversity and inclusion are my personal values and also fundamental to the 3M vision.”

Eric Flamholtz, president of Management Systems Consulting, who has served on a publicly traded company's board, said the CEOs' statements are partly aimed at calming employees.

“They're sending a signal,” Flamholtz said. “They're disassociating themselves from things that have been said and decisions that have been made.”

But, he added, “I wouldn't underestimate that … they joined these councils to give the president a chance [and] to perform a duty for their country in some way. These CEOs are now telling us, ‘I don't want to deal with this anymore’.”

And that's probably an understatement, Flamholtz said.

Other CEOs who resigned include Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup, Brian Krzanich of Intel and Kevin Plank of Under Armour, who was originally bullish about a Trump presidency. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Deputy Chief of Staff Thea Lee also left their advisory roles.

Even executives who initially planned to stay on publicly admonished the president.

“As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists,” said Doug McMillon, chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in a letter on Monday to the chain's 1.5 million U.S. employees.

As criticism from CEOs mounted this week, Trump lashed out. He criticized Merck's Frazier on Monday for “high drug prices” and “taking jobs out of the U.S.” And he tweeted on Tuesday: “For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!”

Presidents often form ad-hoc panels to provide advice, a move often designed to draw media attention to policy issues. President Obama also had an advisory panel that included many chief executives. The panels are less substantive than formal presidential councils or commissions.

3M's Thulin, for example, said he decided the manufacturing panel was “no longer an effective vehicle” for his company to advocate for policies.

Chris Allieri, a principal with communications and public affairs firm Mulberry & Astor, said that participation on Trump's councils didn't give CEOs much additional access. And because of the companies' size, he said, the executives probably don't have to worry about retribution for distancing themselves from the president.

Trump “can't target them,” Allieri said. “He would tank the country and the economy.”

The increased activism among CEOs could reflect well on the companies, as a generation of consumers emerges that cares more about corporate values than their predecessors.

In a survey designed to reflect views of the U.S. adult population, the public relations firm Weber Shandwick found this year that 51% of millennials — generally defined as those born from 1980 through 2000 — would be more likely to buy products from companies whose CEOs hold agreeable positions on certain issues.

“A lot of people are now going to be looking at which CEOs left and when they left,” said Towns, the Georgetown professor. “Did they quit on principle or did they do it under duress after everything had gone down? The hoods are off at this point and people are starting to see where people and brands stand.”


• Paresh Dave has been a Los Angeles-based tech reporter for the Los Angeles Times since May 2013. He focuses on business issues surrounding local tech companies, the digital media industry, e-sports and video games and occasionally cybersecurity. He has previously covered the criminal courts system, national tragedies and sports business. He's a tech-savvy millennial who graduated from the University of Southern California and grew up in San Diego. Dave (Duh-vay) is indeed the last name.

• Jim Puzzanghera writes about business and economic issues from the Los Angeles Times' Washington, D.C., bureau. He joined the L.A. Times in 2006 and won the paper's Editor's Award in 2009 for coverage of the financial crisis. He has worked in the nation's capital since 1998 and is a two-time National Press Club award winner for Washington coverage. A Northwestern University graduate, he previously worked for the San Jose Mercury News, Newsday and the St. Petersburg Times.

• Tracey Lien is a technology reporter for the Los Angeles Times, working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She previously covered the video game industry for Vox Media and, before that, Kotaku Australia. A Sydney native, she moved to the U.S. in 2013 because the servings are bigger. She enjoys perpetuating lies about Australian animals, specifically drop bears and boxing kangaroos.

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Related to this topic:

 • What the 15 top executives who quit Trump's business councils said about why they left

 • Top CEOs from Intel, Merck and Under Armour quit Trump advisory panel over Charlottesville controversy

 • Notable firings and resignations so far in Trump administration


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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2017, 05:44:34 pm »

..yes...great to see Trump telling corporate America where to go...

...good to see a president who is for the man in the street... for the man who has been condemned to work for kiwirail....
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2017, 06:35:50 pm »


It's good to see that at long last you have recognised that big business (and the capitalism it represents) is VERMIN.

The workers need to start a CLASS WAR against businessmen and exterminate them.

I reckon making you the first targets for the bullets could be a good idea.

Then the workers (Trump's men in the street) can move on to exterminating all the other capitalist scum.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2017, 08:28:17 pm »

Most big business managers and CEOs are grovelling cowards who like to be seen adopting the latest identity politics ideology so they don't attract media attention and leftoid sabotage. They have no principles or morals. It's all about what they can get away with.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2017, 09:00:48 pm »


Ooooooh, look.....here is the other zero-brained idiot.

The man who once posted that all guns should be banned except for government use.

How's that for control-freakism, eh?

BTW....that entire group you posted that to is archived on a server and I know where it is and how to access it.

The very clever person who managed to extract the original XNC2 from MSN also discovered that the original long-shuttered XNC group was still there, so extracted and saved that too. I might have to dig out a few of your old posts sometime and repost them here.

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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2017, 09:07:14 pm »

Okily Dokily. 😁You are going to waste more of your life digging up some obscure posts from "someone on the internet" about 15 years ago?? Whatever floats your boat 😁
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2017, 09:09:36 pm »

It will certainly be a laugh to see those discussions again 😁
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2017, 08:21:39 am »

...well hey ..at least we know that because he works for kiwirail....he has plenty of time to spare to do it😜
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2017, 09:17:02 pm »


from The Washington Post....

Three fundraising giants cancel plans for galas at Mar-a-Lago

The defections expose a key business vulnerability at President Trump's Palm Beach club.

By DREW HARWELL and DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD | 1:33PM EDT - Thursday, August 17, 2017

Workers lay out the red carpet at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2016. — Photograph: Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.
Workers lay out the red carpet at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2016. — Photograph: Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

THREE fundraising giants decided to pull events from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday, signaling a direct blowback to his business empire from his comments on Charlottesville's racial unrest.

The American Cancer Society, a high-dollar client at the club since at least 2009, cited its “values and commitment to diversity” in a statement on its decision to move an upcoming fundraising gala. Another longtime Mar-a-Lago customer, the Cleveland Clinic, abruptly changed course on its winter event only days after saying it planned to continue doing business at Mar-a-Lago, a leading venue for charitable events in the posh resort town.

The American Friends of Magen David Adom, which raises money for Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, also said it would not hold its 2018 gala at the club “after considerable deliberation”, though it did not give a reason. The charity had one of Mar-a-Lago's biggest events last season, with about 600 people in attendance.

The cancellations will undoubtedly squeeze revenue for the private club Trump calls the “winter White House”, where similar-size events have often brought in fees of between $100,000 and $275,000 each.

But the Florida club may face an even deeper crisis of confidence from the local business community. The head of the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, of which Mar-a-Lago is a member, called the business “morally reprehensible” on Thursday and said she expected more charities to defect.

“The glitter, the shine has gone from the club,” chamber executive director Laurel Baker said, “and I can't help but think there will be more fallout from it.”

The rapid rejections of one of the president's signature businesses revealed a possible financial vulnerability for Trump, who has been fiercely criticized this week for equating the actions of white supremacists and neo-Nazis with counterprotesters during a violent weekend in Charlottesville.

They also come days after Trump faced condemnations from corporate executives on two of the White House's top business advisory groups, which were disbanded in a stinging rebuke to Trump after his controversial message.

The White House referred questions about the charitable events to the Trump Organization, which did not respond.

At least seven other groups that frequented Mar-a-Lago — including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in New York and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami — have announced in recent months that they would choose other venues, citing reasons such as political differences and security hassles.

Mar-a-Lago's upcoming winter season, the peak of Palm Beach social life, looks as though it will be the slowest period for charity events in at least a decade, according to a Washington Post analysis of upcoming events.

The Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation's leading medical centers, abruptly canceled its event plans on Thursday, and spokeswoman Eileen Sheil told The Washington Post that “there were a variety of factors” behind the cancellation. “We're not elaborating,” she added.

Shortly afterward, the American Cancer Society announced that it was backing out, saying in a statement: “Our values and commitment to diversity are critical as we work to address the impact of cancer in every community. It has become increasingly clear that the challenge to those values is outweighing other business considerations.”

Both health-related groups faced growing pressure to reconsider their support of the president's business amid Trump controversies. But the cancellations don't come without risk: The Cleveland Clinic said it had raised about $1 million a year for medical equipment over the past eight years at Mar-a-Lago.

Baker, head of the Palm Beach chamber, spoke vigorously against Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, saying that her directive to nearby charities was “If you're looking at your mission statement, can you honestly say having an event at Mar-a-Lago, given all that has transpired, is the best stewardship of your efforts?”

“The club is a member of the chamber. But right is right,” she added in an interview. She said her mantra this week is “‘The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis’. Especially for nonprofits. Especially for groups who help people who can't help themselves.”

The Cleveland Clinic had still intended to host its ninth gala there as recently as last week. The move followed weeks of public turmoil, including a letter signed by 1,600 health professionals and others last month that said the Mar-a-Lago booking “symbolically and financially supports a politician actively working to decrease access to healthcare.”

The clinic's chief executive, Toby Cosgrove, was among the business leaders on the president's Strategic and Policy Forum who agreed to disband on Wednesday. Trump said on Twitter that he would end the forum and a separate American Manufacturing Council “rather than putting pressure on the business­people.”

Mar-a-Lago has faced growing scrutiny from supporters of Trump's “buy American, hire American” agenda because of its recent requests for foreign workers. The club, which has sought dozens of H-2B visas for foreign employees because it argued that it can't find Americans to do the work, was absent last week at a job fair in West Palm Beach.

The charity moves are a welcome development for other venues, such as the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, where spokesman Nick Gold said calls have increased from groups looking to hold fundraising events.

“There's a lot of concern from these charities, where their boards of directors are probably not wanting to be at Mar-a-Lago for a variety of reasons,” including reasons related to Trump, he said.


• Drew Harwell is a national business reporter at The Washington Post.

• David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and their business interests for The Washington Post. He has been at The Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment, and the D.C. police.

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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2017, 10:51:02 pm »

Trump isn't racist. It's weird how braindead the loony left are on this issue.
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« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2017, 05:49:58 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

All 17 on White House arts and humanities panel quit,
following business CEOs out the door


By SAMEEA KAMAL and NOAH BIERMAN | 1:40PM PDT - Friday, August 18, 2017

ALL 17 MEMBERS of the White House advisory commission on the arts and humanities, including several from Hollywood, resigned en masse on Friday to protest President Trump's divisive comments on the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The move follows the disbanding of two CEO councils created by the White House after a slew of major business leaders quit this week to protest what they said was the president's failure to sufficiently condemn the neo-Nazi and other racist groups in Saturday's clashes.

The collapse of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities marks the latest break between the Trump White House and the arts community, which had widely embraced President Obama, and marks his further isolation since a combative news conference on Tuesday when he appeared to equate the far-right extremists with those who opposed them.

“Reproach and censure in the strongest possible terms are necessary following your support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville,” the arts group wrote in a letter to Trump. “The false equivalencies you push cannot stand.”

“Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values,” they wrote. “Your values are not American values.”

In a statement later on Friday, the White House said that President Trump had decided “earlier this month” that he would not renew the commission when it expires this year.

“While the committee has done good work in the past, in its current form it simply is not a responsible way to spend American tax dollars,” the statement said.

The committee was created in 1982 under President Reagan and acts as an advisory panel on cultural issues. It is among dozens of mostly ceremonial White House panels that advise the president on business, education and other issues.

It draws from Hollywood, Broadway and the broader arts and entertainment community. First Lady Melania Trump is the honorary chairwoman.

The committee works with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, along with other federal partners and the private sector.

Among those who resigned were actor Kal Penn; painter and photographer Chuck Close; Jill Udall, the former head of cultural affairs for New Mexico; and entertainment executive Fred Goldring, who helped produce the “Yes We Can” video with musician Will.i.am in support of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

The letter was released on Friday morning with signatures from 16 of the 17 members. By afternoon, the 17th member, playwright George C. Wolfe, had also submitted his resignation.

Andrew J. Weinstein, a Democratic activist and donor, said he resigned before Trump's inauguration in January but does not believe the administration recorded that he had left the committee, so he signed the latest letter to send an additional message.

“Standing by while our president engages in the kind of hateful rhetoric and divisive language that he continues to unleash is unacceptable,” he said.

Weinstein said he and other members of the committee were also furious that Trump sought in his proposed budget to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and other cultural programs.


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-arts-panel-quits-20170818-story.html
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« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2017, 05:51:15 pm »

Ahhh...very good....need to spend money on people ...not art...well done Donald Trump... a man of the people😜
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