Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced the disbandment of his Policy and Strategic Forum for prominent business leaders. The president’s announcement came as numerous CEOs exited the forum over controversy surrounding alt-right protests and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Among the remaining CEOs, GM’s Mary Barra stayed on, but she has released a statement following the end of the economic panel.
“General Motors is about unity and inclusion and so am I,” Barra said in a statement. “Recent events, particularly those in Charlottesville, Va., and its aftermath, require that we come together as a country and reinforce values and ideas that unite us — tolerance, inclusion and diversity — and speak against those who divide us — racism, bigotry and any politics based on ethnicity.”
As we reported yesterday, the end of the panel likely comes as a stroke of good luck for Barra since she won’t have to face pressure from the public, shareholders and customers to leave her seat at the table. GM has previously defended her involvement citing the forum offered “a seat at an important table.” Barra had been a part of the forum from its inception.
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I feel relief. I’m sure GM shareholders feel it too.
You “forgot” to mention that since President Trump the stock market has hit record highs, adding trillions to everyday American’s pension… Business optimism at a 30-year high…Over one millions jobs added in only 6 months. Billions of investment pouring into the country.
Your left-wing media war has failed and doesn’t work anymore. Don’t be a sore loser now.
You must be listening to “Fake News”!
It’s comical to see a group of MORONS mindlessly repeating the slogans from a CON MAN who is laughing at them behind closed doors.
That was a direct benefit of Obama’s management of the economy. Now it’s all down from here. Look at the markets in the last week.
If Trump can bankrupt a casino, he can collapse the dis-United States.
She got lucky. To true leader takes a stand and leads, something she didn’t do. She reminds me of someone who got pressured into something and then idle stands in the back hoping to go unnoticed.
Everyone needs to stand up to Nazi’s. The greatest generarion went through hell to keep us free.
I appreciate my elders commitment, and respect for the country I was priveledged to be raised in. Although, by what measurement did you use, to get ‘greatest generation’? Our most recent generation before millennials has buried today in fossil fuel use, has eluded the public on Green energy, and EV’s, and purposely lied bluntly to everyone’s face. Racism will probably never end, along with bigotry, as long as everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But Mary Barra wasn’t on the panel for Silverado or Corvette Owners specifically. She was on that panel, to whisper in his ear to try and ease EPA regulations, and keep a stranglehold on Electric Car sales. What other reasons would she have? She’s already said she won’t be haulting production of the Cruze hatchback In Mexico. She won’t be taking advice from him, Although she along with every other legacy automaker is against EPA regulations on fleet MPG standards by 2025
Everyone needs to stand up to not only the ‘Nazis’ and the Klan, but to the Fascists (antifa) that want to destroy the U.S.
Everyone needs to stand up to left-wing communists and their buddies in the mainstream media who are trying to control our lives only for their benefit.
Capitalism for the idiot masses while the Wall Street billionaires love their socialist tax breaks. The 1% has even convinced you that getting a giant dick shoved up your back side is good for you. Can you fix stupid?
Buttflake is so threatened
Everyone needs to stand up to left-wing lies and propaganda. Communism alwats fails for a reason…it is evil.
Calm down, Buttflake.
Let’s be real here, the only reason she was on the panel was to appeal to Corvette and Silverado buyers. Every other vehicle in their portfolio sells to customers who either aren’t political (Malibu/CT5/Buick) or to people who have opposite politics to the current president (Escalade/Bolt/GM-Bicycle). If you want a sample, hang around a Corvette Corral at Watkins Glen or Road America.
Corvette and Silverado buyers are like Police and Military, 90% of them voted for our current president (Pew, Gallup, etc). The only way to appeal to their wallets is to make them think that they are ‘superior’ and that is what Barra’s presence on the President-promotion committee was for.
Morally, she should have been one of the first out the door. Profitly, she should have faded away. Now, which one did she do?
Please don’t politicalize cars. The reason why there’s so much hate is because we form sides on everything. People are trying to divide us on almost every aspect of are lives. I happen to own a corvette and don’t consider myself a white supremacist or supporter of Nazis. I know of people who drive f150s or Silverados who know the evils of nazism are bad too. A white supremacist can drive anything from a Honda Fit to a corvette, but that doesn’t mean that all drivers of their cars are white supremacist.
You’re correct and I apologize.
Republican from Tennessee Thomas Massie drives a Tesla, and Democrat Vice President Joe Biden drives a Corvette, and very well too according to reports.
Racial profiling. Now automotive profiling?
From what we’ve seen, it doesn’t seem like a very accurate predictor.
So the guys who buy Corvettes are red necks, uneducated, uninformed and uneducated right wing terrorists.
I must be an odd man out. I will be considering a C8, have 2 university degrees, make a healthy 6 figure income, my politics are at the center and I’m a world traveler who speaks 3 languages.
Politics is the number one eney in America and the world today. Politicians and taxes only start wars to advance their selfish agendas. Big brother big government needs to go away.
What a stupid and ignorant statement. Without government and the ability to fund it, you don’t have a country.
You should replace the word government with religion and you may have a point.
Governments tax hardworking people to fund their armies and start wars to protect their own selfish interests.
I am still looking for that Walmart military and the wars they started. I can think of a whole host of evil things big government has done in history…say, Communism, Nazism, World War 1, World War 2, North Korea, Communist China…
Do they make tinfoil hats that fit buttflakes?
Politics is the number one enemy in America and the world today. Politicians and taxes only start wars to advance their selfish agendas. Big brother big government needs to go away.
27 down votes so far. You think you would get the hint that your extremist comments are not in line with the majority.
Scottflake
All the hoopla about Trump is a media lie to get people divided and outraged. Donald Trump condemned both sides of the riot, because they both have fault in all the violence. He also especially condemned the driver. The media will use anything to call Trump or anyone with unbiased thought a racist. Jimmy kimmel and Van Jones can stop crying already. Nobody buys your fake tears ot virtue signalling nonsense.
The only lies are the ones your telling yourself.
I wish you wouldn’t stir up the wackos and their Old Trombone.
I wish you wouldn’t stir up the wackos Old Trombone.
Sorry Old Trombone for the typo in my 1st message. I saw my mistake right after i hit ppst but it was to late.
Someone needs to tell you this kind of comment is exactly why you lost the election. Then again, you are obviously not very intelligent or educated if you lost to a man that never ran in politics, had 1/5 the funding, and all the mainstream media against him.
Sore loser much?
And the Affordable Care Act has the same rights and has the same responsibility for failing people as Obamacare, right? Kimmel’s got one on that as well…
The election is over…The 60s are over…no one is falling for the neo-communust propaganda anymore. You lost to Donald Trump and no amount of whining whimpering about your humilating loss will change things…Time to move on…
Or just go watch the Clinton News Network 24/7 to feed your uneducated brain.
Sorry Mary, you’re way too late to take a stance against Putin’s agent and terrorist.
Haha…What happened to all that evidence and smoking regarding “Russian interference” in the election? Nowhere to be found.
Just a bunch of propaganda and excuses to cover up for left-wing Democrats humiliating loss to President Trump.
Hi idiot son provided the evidence of the collusion with the Russian secret service. The Chinese own your country and the Russians control you. What’s next? A Soviet style collapse. Get ready for the world of the Walking Dead. Murica! You guys at the bottom of the ladder are so screwed.
Still waiting on that famous Russian conspiracy theory evidence…Where is it? Thought President Trump was going to be impeached? Where are the mainstream media now? Oh, yeah, diverting attention away from the failed Russian conspiracy theory/ excuse for the left wing liberals humiliating election loss to President Trump.
Keep crying those liberal tears…wont change reality. Time to move on, now…
Bowl of Frosted Buttflakes
I hope that Barra’s voice can still be heard by the President telling him the needs of car manufacturers to keep them strong and profitable and able to continue building in the States.
No, but she has more chance of having the next president’s ear.
Which will never be Hillary…
Thank God!
I hope that Barra continues to listen to President Trump’s demands to produce cars in America to help the American people and economy instead of running of to Mexico to save a few bucks.
The only reason GM and Barra even decided to start producing cars in the U.S. again was becayse of President Trump taking a tough stand. No wonder the American is once again firing on all cylinders since President Trump’s election victory…stock market at record highs, unemployment way down, huge investments pouring in…
I’m in finance. The stock market is up but it’s about to change. It has taken a hit today. Everything else you said is BS and has nothing to do with Trump. All Trump garbage merchandise is made in China. GM and Barra haven’t changed anything. You’re a complete idiot. All you’re doing is embarrassing yourself and displaying your incredible level of ignorance.
I am in finance. President Trump is still President. Hillary is not and never will be. The media is biased to the left-wing Democrats and triggered because they couldnt win through propaganda this time. Left-wingers are violent, anti-American, full of hate, and dont have a platform or message to gain the trust of the average American for which they screwed to advance their own globalist elitist agenda. They still cant figure out why the lost to Donald Trump…President Trump and Republicans control all branches of power…Democrats were not elected for a reason, but instead of looking in the mirror they just keep making excuses and blaming others…Like Barry (so smuggly) said, elections have consequences. Yup, he was right…America is changed for generations…Left-wingers are not coming back to power anytime soon no matter how much they whine and cry and try to burn America down…
I am in finance…….
And you’re obviously ignorant, uneducated, unemployed and like the rest of your clan, a real loser. Living in a trailer must really suck.
The illegitimate President will soon be removed and the undesirables will go back in their holes shooting opioids and being totally overwhelmed by a world they don’t understand.
1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch
2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria
3. He took us out of TPP
4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)
5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6
6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high
7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada
8. Bids for border wall are well underway
9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord
10. Keystone pipeline approved
11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%
12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees
13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans
14. More than 600,000 Jobs created
15. Median household income at a 7 year high
16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history
17. China agreed to American import of beef
18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks
19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining
20. MOAB for ISIS
21. Travel ban reinstated
22. Executive order for religious freedom
23. Jump started NASA
24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget
25. Targeting of MS13 gangs
26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants
27. Signed 41 bills to date
28. Created a commission on child trafficking
29. Created a commission on voter fraud
30. Created a commission for opioids addiction
31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients
32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007
33. Historic Black College University initiative
34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act
35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims
36. Reversed Dodd-Frank
37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning
38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement
39. End of DAPA program
40. Stopped companies from moving out of America
41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs
42. Encouraged country to once again – ‘Buy American and hire American’
43. Cutting regulations – 2 for every one created
45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first
46. Apprentice program
47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years
48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota
49. Denied FBI a new building
50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation
51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll
52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)
53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt
54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years
55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth
56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people’s lives than any President in the history of America
57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman
58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)
59. Last, refused his Presidential pay check. Donated it to Veterans issues
Number 60. Much of 1 – 59 is spin and complete BS that can be debunked with a simple Google search. Other aspects you mentioned make me want to bang my head against the wall. I will refrain.
Number 61. Someday * I * will share a list of Trump’s accomplishments (when I have the HOURS it will take). Not the ones that get discussed day in and day out, mind you, I am talking REAL ways YOU have been thouroughly sedf;usydf;isudhf;isudygf[w7wer over and defrauded.
Number 62. You. Won’t. Like. It.
Number 63. This entire thread is a waste of precious time. Maybe I’ll bang my head against the wall after all.
He’s done nothing but create turmoil. He hasn’t even written the book the Art of the Deal.
The guy who wrote his book , just said he’s about to resign:
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-going-resign-soon-president-art-deal-ghostwriter-predicts-651873
The military today said he’s unfit for the position.
If you get one of those showerheads on a cord you can use it to rinse the buttflakes off your brain
The panel never had a meeting, and was no more than an early photo op for Trump, and the toady business community.
She can hide behind that jerk’s preemptive move. Shame on her and the others who did the same.
Liberal tears…Love them!
Keep crying sore loser…but it wont change the fact that America rejected your failed left-wing utopian bs.
If you use some Head and Shoulders on your butt… you’ll be able to remove more buttflakes from your brain
Mary Barra pu$$ed out
Real question is why racism and bigotry has gotten so badly since Obama left office and the answer is simple, it’s not what Donald Trump may or may not have done since taking office in January as much as what his predecessor Barack Obama failed to do during his time as President; race relations got worst under Obama who played the race card at every opportunity by pointing the finger of blame at Whites in this country.
It is also because of Obama, while doing the talk, has not done the walk.
Obama avoided to go to Ferguson and use his excellence as public speaker in a mass rally to call on the police to stop harassing Black people.
Gentleman,
Please remember what the article is covering. It’s not a “left or right” move by CEO Barra. She is leader of GM. She works at the pleasure of a Board of Directors. She must always take actions that are best for the company that she is entrusted to lead with strength and honor.
Please park your politics aside for a moment and put yourself in her shoes and think of how you would do.
Good point. Oh, and yeah: she pu$$ed out.
Yes she did nothing and the committee is another Trump failure.
Why does GM Authority this type of nonsense? GM has enough issues with their vehicles. No need to have political threads running on the site.
Fix the cars. Honor the warranties. Remove “they all do it” “functioned as designed” and no code from the excuse manual.
The site is also a place for posters to make personal attacks on each other.
I’m not referring specifically to this thread in reference to personal attacks. Attacks are common on many threads.
Moderation is needed or just keep GMA as junky as the products.
Classy