08-16-2017, 04:52 PM
After eight CEOs resigned from Trump's Manufacturing Advisory Council following his response to the Charlottesville situation............today the President disbanded the Council altogether.
"Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville," Campbell Soup CEO Morrison said, referring to Trump's much criticized response to the white supremacist rally in which a counterprotester was killed.
Trump had initially announced that he condemned the violence "by many sides", which was viewed by many as a weak statement and a false equivalency meant to minimize the racism and killing by the alt-right group in suggesting that those protesting racism were just as bad.
Republican and Democratic politicians, along with members of the general public and media, have also roundly criticized Trump's comments yesterday when he seemingly contradicted Monday's full condemnation of the KKK and neo-Nazis by stating that there were 'fine people' on both sides.
Story: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...signations
"Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville," Campbell Soup CEO Morrison said, referring to Trump's much criticized response to the white supremacist rally in which a counterprotester was killed.
Trump had initially announced that he condemned the violence "by many sides", which was viewed by many as a weak statement and a false equivalency meant to minimize the racism and killing by the alt-right group in suggesting that those protesting racism were just as bad.
Republican and Democratic politicians, along with members of the general public and media, have also roundly criticized Trump's comments yesterday when he seemingly contradicted Monday's full condemnation of the KKK and neo-Nazis by stating that there were 'fine people' on both sides.
Story: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...signations