Uber CEO,
Travis Kalanick, has refused to go down alone after he received backlash for
supporting Donald Trump and he proceeded to expose other CEOs who also
support
Trump.
In an email
to his staff on Saturday, Kalanick said that the company opposes the executive
orders by Trump and will compensate affected employees. But he did not stop
there, he went on to reveal in detail the names and companies of other CEOs who
support and serve as advisers to Donald Trump.
The email
read in part; "This is why I agreed in early December to join President
Trump’s economic advisory group along with Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla), Mary Barra
(Chairwoman/CEO of General Motors), Indra Nooyi (Chairwoman/CEO of Pepsi),
Ginni Rometty (Chairwoman/CEO of IBM), Bob Iger (Chairman/CEO of Disney), Jack
Welch (former Chairman of GE), and a dozen other business leaders."
Kalanick is
an advisor for Trump’s business group and on Saturday, while the Taxi Union
agreed to hold a strike at the JKF airport in protest of the ban on Muslim
foreigners, Uber broke the taxi strike and went on to announce on Twitter that
surge pricing has been reduced, meaning their prices were made less expensive,
thereby undermining the effect of the strike. This prompted a lot of anti-Trump
protesters to delete the Uber app from their phones and the hashtag #DeleteUber
started trending on Twitter.
Kalanick was
not going to suffer the backlash alone so he snitched on other CEOs, but this
did not go down well, because, rather than have the criticisms shift from him
to the other exposed CEOs, he received an even greater backlash, with most
referring to him as "the dude that caught cheating, so he snitched on all
his boys.”
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