Breaking: Trump's Epic Meltdown

blackascoal said:
CEOs under fire to dump Trump

President Trump's brand is becoming too toxic for a growing number of America's CEOs.

Within 24 hours on Monday, the chief executives of Under Armour (UA), Intel and Merck (MRK) quit Trump's manufacturing council in protest over his initial failure to condemn white supremacists. The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing followed suit by quitting on Tuesday.

These public stands are highly unusual. CEOs are loath to alienate customers through politics and never want to be the target of a tweet storm from Trump.

But corporate leaders who were once eager for a seat at the Trump table are increasingly deciding the costs outweigh the benefits.

"There is a herd effect. With each CEO's announcement, it becomes easier for the next CEO to take a stand -- and the pressure goes up to do so," said Timothy Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Grassroots organizations are pleading with more corporate leaders to take action. Color of Change, a racial justice organization, is mobilizing a campaign called #QuitTheCouncil aimed at convincing Pepsi's (PEP) Indra Nooyi and others to immediately cut ties with Trump.

"We will not forget those who remained silent," the petition warns.

Other high-profile execs like General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra and Campbell Soup (CPB) boss Denise Morrison could face similar pressure.

From racism to climate change, CEOs keep turning on Trump

On Monday, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, one of the nation's most prominent black CEOs, stepped down from the president's manufacturing council following Trump's reluctance to denounce white supremacists who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. The demonstrations turned violent, and a counter-protester was killed.

Frazier cited a "responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism" in leaving the council.
calling the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists "evil."

Trump fired back at the CEOs, calling them "grandstanders" in a tweet on Tuesday.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/investing/ceos-pressure-dump-trump-under-armour-intel/index.html
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American ceo's are over paid and over rated
 
TTQ64 said:
America needs to stop begging dump to apologize for something he doesn't believe in.

He supports white supremacy let him speak his truth.
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I watched the clip. I wouldn't characterize it as a meltdown---more like Trump giving it back to the media.

He made several good points: one is the 'alt-left' should be ostracized by the left and they're not. Another was regarding the monuments---Trump asked the reporter if Jeffersons monument should be taken down, since TJ was a 'major slave owner'.

There was no answer.

Both were very good points that needed to be made. Politically, I don't know if it's a hill worth dying on because the media will mangle his words and have Trump being a racist. Again.

He does well to call them 'fake news'.
 
We sure have a lot more racist and people who are willing to tolerate racists in this country than I thought we did.
 
God Emperor said:
affirmative action is racism and you tolerate that don't you?
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I disagree that it is racism. I would not join in a March promoting affirmative action. But if you are equating affirmative-action with neo-Nazis and KKK, you are sick .
 
Jarod said:
I disagree that it is racism. I would not join in a March promoting affirmative action. But if you are equating affirmative-action with neo-Nazis and KKK, you are sick .
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affirmative action gives advantages to people based on skin color so how is that not racist?
 
Literal Vampire Potbelly Goblin said:
lol no it's not. now you have proven to be a complete retard for sure.
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Grind just admit that it is over for Trump. How can we possibly competed with such political intellectual heavyweights such as Amadeus and Legion?

I can remember when I first joined JPP almost ten years ago I marveled at all the threads by JPP liberals taking a stand against Confederate monuments. They were collective in their cause. Rana was particularly vocal about it. I think I even sent you a PM about it
 
God Emperor said:
affirmative action gives advantages to people based on skin color so how is that not racist?
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Racism is the belief that one is better than another based on race. Affirmative action is giving advantages to people based on skin color because they don't have equal opportunity otherwise, that's not racist, it might be bad policy but it's not racist.
 
Jarod said:
Racism is the belief that one is better than another based on race. Affirmative action is giving advantages to people based on skin color because they don't have equal opportunity otherwise, that's not racist, it might be bad policy but it's not racist.
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giving a person something or taking something away because of the color of there skin is racist
 
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