Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
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Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#2Not exactly a vote of confidence in the administration's priorities in renegotiating NAFTA, which started like an hour ago.
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#3Just yesterday:
> "For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/89747827044214374...
How many had already quit and this was just to stop further embarrassing himself?
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#4Matt Levine says it best:
"[..] but I have to confess that it seems odd to me to denounce Nazism out of fealty to shareholder value. You can just denounce Nazism because you're not a Nazi! This is a financial newsletter, but I have never assumed that the operations of capital are autonomous and self-executing, or that executives are robots who are programmed to maximize shareholder value to the exclusion of all other considerations. Corporations exist in society, and are not above society's concerns. Businesses operate through human beings, who remain human even in their roles as CEOs. One would hope."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-16/ceos-cons...
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#5Just yesterday: > "For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/89747827044214374... How many had already quit and this was just to stop further embarrassing himself?
According to the article the entire Strategy & Policy Forum disbanded beforehand, and he tweeted that to save face.
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#6Just yesterday: > "For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/89747827044214374... How many had already quit and this was just to stop further embarrassing himself?
Twelve quit before it was disbanded. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Manufacturing_Council and sort by Membership status.
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#7The sad part is that business will go on but now the lobbyists will do the advising again.
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#8The sad part is that business will go on but now the lobbyists will do the advising again.
I'd guess the lobbyists were doing the actual advising before this anyway.
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#9The sad part is that business will go on but now the lobbyists will do the advising again.
Seems like these panels were in place more for their legitimizing optics than for genuine counsel.
Re: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
#10Matt Levine says it best: "[..] but I have to confess that it seems odd to me to denounce Nazism out of fealty to shareholder value. You can just denounce Nazism because you're not a Nazi! This is a financial newsletter, but I have never assumed that the operations of capital are autonomous and self-executing, or that executives are robots who are programmed to maximize shareholder value to the exclusion of all other…
Matt Levine always says it best