AFL-CIooooooohhh shit…
Donald Trump showed his true colors during Tuesday’s press conference, defending white nationalists who protested the removal of a Confederate statue, and that means losing even more support.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, along with rep Thea Lee, are the latest to step down from the president’s manufacturing council, following CEOs for Merck, Under Armour, Intel, and AAM.
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In a biting, unequivocal statement, the union leaders slammed Drumpf as “a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism”:
“President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis. We must resign on behalf of America’s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups.”
Read the entire statement (below):
I cannot sit on a council for a President that tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism; I resign, effective immediately. pic.twitter.com/ip6F2nsoog
— Richard L. Trumka (@RichardTrumka) August 15, 2017
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and I have resigned from the Manufacturing Council. https://t.co/eto66KAzTf
— Thea Lee (@TheaLee1) August 15, 2017
Holy shit. Trump actually brought together the unions and Wal-Mart, whose CEO Doug McMillon said earlier today that 45 “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists.”
We guess he’s uniting the country after all.
[Image via C-SPAN/Twitter.]
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