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White House and Political News
Former Pres. Obama’s Charlotteville Tweet Is The ‘Most Liked’ In History
Pres. Trump Disbands 2 Business Councils After CEOs And Business Leaders Resign
After several business lead- ers announced their resigna- tions from the White House's American Manufacturing Council in recent days, Presi- dent Donald Trump an- nounced he was ending the panel Wednesday, along with the separate Strategic and Pol- icy Forum.
"Rather than putting pres- sure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both," wrote Trump on Twitter. "Thank you all!"
Eight members of the Amer- ican Manufacturing Council dropped from the panel follow- ing Trump's response to last weekend's violence in Char- lottesville, Virginia, following the lead of Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck, who is Black. A ninth, Greg Hayes of United Technologies, announced his
Pres. Trump with 2 members of the Manufacturing Council.
resignation just minutes after the president's tweet.
The American Manufactur- ing Council was established in January and featured 28 mem- bers at its start. Tesla CEO Elon Musk left the group in June in response to Trump's decision to remove the U. S. from the Paris Climate Accord.
The second group, the Strategic and Policy Forum, was led by Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman. It included some of the biggest players in finance and busi-
ness: JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon, PepsiCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi, General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra, and Walmart (WMT) CEO Doug McMil- lon. It had met several times since it was established shortly after the election.
In a statement Wednesday, members of the Strategic and Policy Forum said that "intol- erance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country and are an affront to core American values.”
The 44th president of the U. S. received the ‘most likes’ in Twit- ter history.
Former president Barack Obama’s message after the vi- olence in Charlottesville, Va., was brief, but it hit the right note for many.
"No one is born hating an- other person because of the color of his skin or his back- ground or his religion ... ," Barack Obama tweeted, ac- companied by a photo of him- self, jacket slung over his shoulder, smiling at four young children gathered at a win- dowsill.
Twitter has announced that Saturday's tweet is the most- liked tweet ever.
It attracted more than 3.3 million likes and 1.3 million retweets as of Wednesday morning.
White House photographer Pete Souza took the photo used in the tweet in June 2011 and reused on last Saturday.
The caption explains how the moment came to be: "The President had attended the fourth grade closing ceremony for his daughter Sasha at her school in Bethesda, Md. As he was departing, he noticed some pre-school children peering out of a window at a child care fa- cility adjacent to Sasha's school so he walked over to say hello to them."
The previous most-liked tweet was posted by Ariana Grande in May, following a bombing at her concert in Manchester, England.
President Trump Getting Backlash From All Fronts After Press Conference About Charlottesville
Donald Trump has once again upset people all over the world for something that he's said.
The press featured Trump saying some of the white su- premacists were "very fine peo- ple," comparing American presidents George Washing- ton and Thomas Jefferson to Confederate leader, Robert E. Lee, and defending Confed- erate statues and symbols on public land.
Members of Congress in
President Donald Trump's
own party were among those lawmakers quick to criticize comments made in his news conference where he laid blame on both sides of protest- ers.
America's top-ranking mili- tary officers also spoke out forcefully against racial bigotry and extremism, a rare public foray into domestic politics that revealed growing unease
Members of Congress and the military denounce the Char- lottesville event.
at the Pentagon with some of President Trump's policies and views.
The members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- the senior uni- formed brass of the Navy, Ma- rine Corps, Army and Air Force -- all posted messages on their official Twitter accounts to de- nounce the far-right extremists
behind Saturday's violence in Charlottesville, Va.
The messages did not men- tion Trump, who is the com- mander in chief, by name. But the rebuke seemed clear in sev- eral posts given the bipartisan furor over Trump's insistence Tuesday that "both sides" were at fault for the violence.
Speaking to reporters at Trump Tower in New York City, Trump denounced the "alt-left" protesters who he said "came charging" at a group of white supremacist rally goers.
Tweeting in response to Trump's off-the-cuff re- marks, Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of Wis- consin called white supremacy "repulsive."
The foreign reaction has ranged from high-profile law- makers calling Trump's re- marks "trivializing" and "sickening," to one campaign group branding the president "the most high profile fascist- sympathizer of modern times."
UF Denies White Rights Activist Access To Campus
Richard Spencer cannot speak on the University of Florida campus.
White rights activist Richard Spencer is running out of campuses to host him.
The University of Florida shut down a request by Spencer's group to have him speak on September 12.
"Amid serious concerns for safety, we have decided to deny the National Policy Institute's request to rent event space at the University of Florida," uni- versity president W. Kent Fuchs posted on Facebook.
"This decision was made after assessing potential risks with campus, community, state and federal law enforcement officials following violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va.,
and continued calls online and in social media for similar vio- lence in Gainesville such as those decreeing: "The Next Battlefield is in Florida.”
Fuchs said the decision stemmed from the potential for violence, not the words or ideas.
Spencer has been de- scribed as both a white nation- alist and a white supremacist.
He told CNN he wants to make "white privilege great again.”
"Ultimately, America is a white country," he told CNN's W. Kamau Bell in an episode of "United Shades of America."
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