Time to turn chicken bleep into chicken salad. On the Paris Accord/ White House diary, a member named Iberian provided a great list of ultra-high-level leaders with roles on Presidential Councils, as follows, in addition to Musk who already quit:
What about the rest of the hyenas in those presidential councils.
- Mary Barra — Chairwoman and CEO of General Motors
- Gary Cohn — Chief economic advisor to POTUS and director of the US National Economic Council
- Doug McMillon — President and CEO of Walmart Stores
- Larry Fink — Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
- Rich Lesser — President and CEO of the Boston Consulting Group
- Jim McNerney — Former president and CEO of Boeing
- Paul Atkins — CEO of Patomak Global Partners and former commissioner of the SEC
- Kevin Warsh — Distinguished visiting fellow in economics at the Hoover Institute and former governor of the Federal Reserve System
- Toby Cosgrove — President and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic
- Jamie Dimon — Chairman, president, and CEO of JPMorgan Chase
- Daniel Yergin — Pulitzer Prize-winning author and vice chairman of IHS Markit
- Jack Welch — Former chairman and CEO of General Electric
- Mark Weinberger — Chairman and CEO of EY
- Adebayo Ogunlesi — Chairman and managing partner at Global Infrastructure Partners
- Ginni Rometty — Chairwoman, president, and CEO of IBM
- Indra Nooyi — Chairwoman and CEO of PepsiCo
- Stephen Schwarzman — Cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Blackstone
I am sure there are some others of equal stature.
My question is simple: why would progressives NOT create a formal petition campaign, aimed at this list and any others, insisting that they follow Elan Musk and either a) stop participating in these councils, or b) remaining, but formally, loudly and publicly denouncing Trump’s decision?
Of course, the laundry list of Trump’s awful behavior is already approaching the infinite, but I don’t think that there are many issues on which the anti-science, nihilist nature of Trump’s behavior can be so easily identified. Would people like Fink, Lesser, Cosgrove, Dimon, Rommety and Schwarzman, to name a few obvious targets, not feel compelled to respond if they were hit with an aggressive campaign of petitions, e-mails, advertisements, statements from people like Musk, etc?
To my mind, this is a singular opportunity to force leaders with potentially differing political viewpoints to stand together over a single, essential issue. Indeed, if such a campaign were organized and funded, I would certainly contribute. Significantly. The PaPA movement—Paris Political Accord movement, as it were.
This needs to start, fast, I believe. There may not be many similar opportunities to link a consensus of leadership against The Monster.