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Trump Ends C.E.O. Advisory Councils as Main Group Acts to Disband

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President Trump’s main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president’s controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them. Soon after, the president announced on Twitter that he would end his executive councils, “rather than put pressure” on executives.

There is an analogy here. Kids decide to play some ball in a vacant lot. One of the kids attempts to change the rules, so some of the other kids begin to leave. Since the kid who attempted to change the rules owns the baseball, he takes his baseball and goes home. If they don't like my new rules, he says, they don't get to play ball.

Yes, this is an act of a petty and petulant man, who suffers from malignant narcissism which has no cure. .

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...nav=top-news&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/
 
I heard it was a contest to see who could disavow who first!
 
There is an analogy here. Kids decide to play some ball in a vacant lot. One of the kids attempts to change the rules, so some of the other kids begin to leave. Since the kid who attempted to change the rules owns the baseball, he takes his baseball and goes home. If they don't like my new rules, he says, they don't get to play ball.

Yes, this is an act of a petty and petulant man, who suffers from malignant narcissism which has no cure. .

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...nav=top-news&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/

You can't disban a council with no members in it. :lamo
 
Breaking up with the boy/girlfriend who broke up with you.
 
There is an analogy here. Kids decide to play some ball in a vacant lot. One of the kids attempts to change the rules, so some of the other kids begin to leave. Since the kid who attempted to change the rules owns the baseball, he takes his baseball and goes home. If they don't like my new rules, he says, they don't get to play ball.

Yes, this is an act of a petty and petulant man, who suffers from malignant narcissism which has no cure. .

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...nav=top-news&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/

As I see it, he did all those CEOs a HUGE favor. They either had to speak out against the POTUS, and risk government contracts, Trump attacking them like he did the Merck CEO, alienating a big chunk of Trump supporters, or stay silent, try to ride it out, and see if the inevitable boycotts were having an effect. Trump just allowed them to walk away without the downside risk.

I'm disappointed. It would have been better to have a slew of CEOs openly condemn Trump's position here, and for Trump to suffer the embarrassing defection of that group of influential men.
 
Trump yet again taking failure to the next level......bigly.
 
Lol, Steve Schwarzman disbanded it. Trump tried claiming he did after the fact.

Trump business panel was already disbanding before Trump decided to end it | TheHill

Well, darn, once again I didn't consider the obvious and Trump was a bigger liar than I expected on this issue. It's never smart to overestimate Trump's integrity. If he says something, always a good idea to assume he's lying until proven otherwise.

It's really unbelievable how shameless the guy is. Lying is second nature to him.

Kudos to the panel for voting to disband. They did the right thing.
 
There is an analogy here. Kids decide to play some ball in a vacant lot. One of the kids attempts to change the rules, so some of the other kids begin to leave. Since the kid who attempted to change the rules owns the baseball, he takes his baseball and goes home. If they don't like my new rules, he says, they don't get to play ball.

Yes, this is an act of a petty and petulant man, who suffers from malignant narcissism which has no cure. .

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...nav=top-news&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/

Ole' donny boy is probably used to his temper tantrum, "quit? you can't quit, you're fired!" remaining relatively quiet. I wonder how many other CEOs are paying attention to his retaliations and scaling their donations accordingly?
 
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