Walmart CEO Doug McMillon sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly violence sparked by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, becoming arguably Trump’s loudest corporate detractor even as he remains on a White House economics advisory panel. “As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists,” McMillon wrote. Yet McMillon plans to remain on the president’s Strategic and Policy Forum, a council of 16 prominent executives formed to advise Trump on economic policy, according to The New York Times, which first reported the memo. No other member of the panel ― headed by Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of The Blackstone Group private equity firm ― has stepped down, and few have spoken out. That stands in contrast to the four executives who quit Trump’s American Manufacturing Council over the past two days in protest of his response to the violence in Charlottesville.

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 19:46 UTC