After months of standing by President Trump, this week was the last straw, and the CEOs on the President’s Strategy and Policy Forum voted this morning they would disband the group. Out of courtesy they informed Trump before the press and he immediately claimed the choice was his:
Trump’s tweet directly contradicts CEOs like IBM’s Ginni Rometty who told all of her employees: “Earlier today I spoke with other members of the Forum and we agreed to disband the group.”
The Wall Street Journal confirms what you already knew, Trump is lying not the CEOs:
Two of President Donald Trump’s councils of top business leaders are disbanding following Tuesday’s controversial remarks by the president about the weekend’s violence in Virginia.
Mr. Trump tweeted Wednesday that he was ending the White House council on manufacturing and the Strategic and Policy Forum.
One of the councils had planned to disband after a conference call of its executives on Wednesday morning, a person familiar with the matter said. Mr. Trump’s tweet came after reports that council was disbanding.
Blackstone Group LP Chief Executive Stephen A. Schwarzman, who led the Strategic and Policy Forum, phoned the president on Wednesday to inform him the group was being disbanded, according to people familiar with the call.
After the call, which was described as cordial, the president tweeted that it was his decision to disband that council. In that tweet, he also announced he was disbanding the manufacturing council.
Unfortunately, since it it easier to repeat what Trump says, most press reports are parroting Trump.