Merck CEO Ken Frazier resigns from Trump council in protest, and the president swiftly bites back
Merck CEO Ken Frazier, the only African-American running a top global biopharma company, has very publicly broken with President Trump, resigning in protest from the administration’s manufacturing council in the wake of a growing controversy over the president’s unwillingness to single out white supremacy groups in the violent protests over the weekend in Charlottesville, VA.
This move by Frazier will put considerable pressure on the rest of the industry and its lobbyists to separate themselves from Trump — something they’ve been loath to do – and take a more critical position on Trump’s presidency as well as some of his policies.
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