It's said that Trump is a “good businessman”.
Good for his own personal stake, maybe, but disastrous for just about everyone else. Can't keep a promise, and can't keep people around.
Tesla’s Elon Musk and Disney’s Robert Iger both said they were resigning from White House advisory councils after President Trump announced Thursday that he is withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord.
Musk said he had “done all I can" — as a member of the advisory councils, through White House personnel and directly with the president — to push Trump to stick with the Obama-era plan.
And others, including Disney CEO Bob Iger, can see the disaster that leaving the Paris accords will spell for all of us. So Iger took action.
Hours after Musk pulled out, Iger — who with Musk was on Trump’s business advisory panel — said he was leaving that council “as a matter of principle.”
This is the era of the strangest bedfellows. But credit needs to be given when it is due. Whether these two are merely protecting their own bottom line is less relevant than the fact that they acted.
Now if only more Republicans would follow suit we might actually get back to having a functioning nation again.
Hey, a guy can dream.