Busy day today…and hot and steamy.

Anyway, I see Donny Trump has disbanded his Manufacturing Council. Sounds like the members of his Strategic and Policy forum agreed to leave that group to show dissatisfaction with his comments on race. When Trump heard they were quitting the group he decided to chuck both advisory boards.

Sorry if already mentioned…Imma behind.

Trump abruptly ends manufacturing council after CEOs disband strategic and policy forum

Top executives have broken with President Donald Trump.

In a private phone call Wednesday afternoon, CEOs who were part of a strategic council to Trump agreed to disband the group and condemn Trump’s confrontational response to a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“There really was nothing to debate,” said one member of the forum, who described the president’s fiery Tuesday news conference as a “tripwire.”

Shortly after CNBC and other broke the news that the council was disbanding, Trump took to Twitter to say he was ending that forum and another featuring manufacturing leaders. By the time Trump made his statement, several executives had left the manufacturing group this week.

In a tweet, the president said he decided to dissolve the groups “rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople.”

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!
1:14 PM - Aug 16, 2017
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The events mark the biggest falling out yet between Trump and corporate America, which largely cheered his pro-business stances when he took office.

usiness leaders heard from employees and customers about their roles on the council.

In a statement, the Strategic and Policy Forum members said they “believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well-intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.”

Corporate leaders and notable Republicans distanced themselves from Trump this week because of his response to last weekend’s violence. A car allegedly driven by a suspected white nationalist rammed into counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 others.

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