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Trump: CEOs Who Quit Advisory Panel Are 'Grandstanders'

Trump: CEOs Who Quit Advisory Panel Are 'Grandstanders'

Tuesday, 15 August 2017 11:40 AM EDT

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed company executives who have resigned from one of his presidential advisory committees in reaction to his response to the weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!" Trump wrote on Twitter after the chief executives of Merck & Co Inc, Under Armour Inc and Intel Corp left his Presidential Manufacturing Council.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed company executives who have resigned from one of his presidential advisory committees in reaction to his response to the weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as "grandstanders."
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