The CEO of Intel on Monday is the third executive to announce his resignation from President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, after the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend, the Hill reports.
“I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing,” CEO Brian Krzanich wrote in a blog post.
“Politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America’s manufacturing base.” Krzanich called for an end to “scoring political points” and said “the current environment must change.”
“I have already made clear my abhorrence at the recent hate-spawned violence in Charlottesville, and earlier today I called on all leaders to condemn the white supremacists and their ilk who marched and committed violence.”
Krzanich did not used Trump’s name in his post, but his resignation from the council comes after the president has faced tough criticism over his reaction to Charlottesville incident. A white nationalist rally has turned violent on Saturday. A man allegedly plowed a car into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring many others.
Trump initially blamed that violence was used by “many sides,” for which he was harshly criticized, even from many in his own party. On Monday, he sought to end the outrage, while issuing a statement in which he described racism as “evil” and singled out some hate groups, including the KKK and the neo-Nazis who were the organizers of the rally.
But before came out with that statement, the CEO of the giant pharmaceutical company, Merck, submitted his resignation. Rught after that, Trump blasted Merck CEO Kenneth Frasier and the company on Twitter for their drug prices.
On Monday evening, Kevin Plank, the CEO of sports clothing manufacturer Under Armour, became the second executive to submit his resignation, followed, by Intel’s Krzanich.
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