Despite a sometimes strained relationship with the White House, corporate board rooms stayed silent, spared the need to weigh in. Big companies are by their nature risk averse when it comes to wading into political controversy. Trump denounced the executives as “grandstanders” and vowed to replace them, but that did nothing to stop more executives from fleeing. Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, a major GOP donor, reportedly compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini during a private political summit. The same companies who distanced themselves from Trump this week are likely to keep lobbying the White House in the months and years ahead.

Source: Huffington Post August 19, 2017 12:01 UTC