After disbanding two White House advisory jobs panels on Wednesday, the Trump administration announced on Thursday that they would no longer move forward with plans to form an infrastructure advisory council.
“The President has announced the end of the Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum. In addition, the President’s Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which was still being formed, will not move forward,” a White House official said in a statement distributed to reporters on Thursday evening.
The dissolution of the advisory panels comes after several CEOs spoke out against President Donald Trump’s failure to offer a full-throated condemnation of white nationalists after the deadly attack in Charlottesville.
After Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier slammed Trump’s comments earlier this week and quit the White House manufacturing council, several other business leaders on the manufacturing jobs advisory panel followed suit and quit in protest.
Then, as those CEOs publicly left that board, and members of another jobs panel, the Strategy & Policy Forum, worked behind the scenes to dissolve that group, Trump abruptly disbanded both panels.
Businesses don’t want to offend their shareholders and customers by being seen in the same room as Trump, so of course they’re shunning these photo-op groups. (How many will continue to cut deals in back-room meetings is another matter, of course.)
The one group that isn’t avoiding Trump, of course, is the christianists. Not a single member of his Evangelical Council has left that group, nor even said a word against him. That speaks volumes about their morality, I’d say.
Apparently, “winning” means shutting down anything and everything that doesn’t go your way.
We are on the brink of an epic meltdown – a 300 pound toddler flailing about on the floor of the Oval Office, screaming bloody murder.
I hope someone has their iPhone.
Yet so many in his base still support him. They’re threatening civil war now if he’s impeached. But that might be the only way to get rid of them. Imprison them for sedition and insurrection, give them some basketballs to play with when they get bored, and throw away the keys.
Have you seen the Christianists’ audience…oops, congregations? Lost Causers, yes even the more northern and western ones. In Midwest, Plains and other states you need to ask where their grandparents were born.
(That’s a hint to MSNBC the next time they hang out in Youngstown, or rural OH)