Eighth CEO resigns from Trump’s manufacturing council

The CEO of Campbell resigned from President Trump’s manufacturing council on Wednesday, following the president’s comments on the violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va.

“Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville,” Denise Morrison said in a statement.

“I believe the president should have been — and still needs to be — unambiguous on that point,” she said.

Morrison’s statement was immediately followed on Wednesday by the president’s announcement he would disbanding the council.

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Morrison said in the statement that after Trump’s remarks Tuesday, she is not able to “remain on the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.”

“I will continue to support all efforts to spur economic growth and advocate for the values that have always made America great,” the statement said.

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— Campbell Soup Co (@CampbellSoupCo) August 16, 2017

Trump on Tuesday ignited a firestorm after he said during a defiant press conference there is “blame on both sides” for the deadly violence over the weekend at a white supremacist rally Charlottesville that left one counterprotester dead and numerous others injured.

Morrison joins a list of other business leaders who resigned from advisory councils since the weekend’s violence in Virginia. On Wednesday, 3M’s CEO also resigned from the manufacturing council, and Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum announced they were disbanding as well.

Following those announcements, Trump tweeted that he is disbanding both his Manufacturing Advisory Council and the Strategic and Policy Forum.

– This report was updated at 2:10 p.m.