FOURTH CEO leaves White House manufacturing council over Charlottesville debacle – just minutes after Trump says he has a line of executives ready to take their places
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich both stepped down
They resigned hours after Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier announced he was quitting President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council
Krzanich explicitly condemned the ‘hate-spawned violence’ in Charlottesville
Now Alliance for American Manufacturing president Scott Paul has also quit
His decision came just minutes after Trump said he would be able to replace defectors easily
By DAVID MARTOKSO, US POLITICAL EDITOR
DAILYMAIL.COM
5 August 2017
Minutes after President Donald Trump castigated a trio of CEOs for abandoning his American Manufacturing Council, a fourth executive bailed on him.
‘I’m resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it’s the right thing for me to do,’ Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, tweeted Tuesday.
Trump had just vowed on Twitter that ‘[f]or every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!’
It’s unclear how Trump will replace Paul.
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank revealed on Monday afternoon that he was stepping down from the council to ‘focus on inspiring and uniting through power of sport.’
A few hours later, he was joined by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich.
Their resignations came less than a day after Merck pharmaceuticals CEO Kenneth Frazier announced he was leaving the group.
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