US President scraps business forums after CEO protest resignations
The action followed several high-profile resignations in protest over his comments on a white supremacist rally in Virginia that turned violent.
US President Donald Trump.
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The action followed several high-profile resignations in protest over his comments on a white supremacist rally in Virginia that turned violent.
Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday, August 16.
"Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" Trump wrote on the microblogging platform.
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Among those who quit the forum were the CEOs of Merck, Intel and Under Armour.
They backed out of the council following Trump's comments about Saturday's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A suspected Nazi sympathiser then rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, leaving one woman dead and 19 others injured.
The driver, James Fields, has been charged with second-degree murder.
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