{"id":23951,"date":"2017-08-17T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23951"},"modified":"2017-08-17T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:55:21","slug":"business-advisory-councils-demise-no-huge-deal-except","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23951","title":{"rendered":"Business advisory councils’ demise no huge deal, except …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The dismantling of two advisory councils by the president of the United States won’t matter in the grand scheme of the Donald John Trump administration’s method of operation.<\/p>\n

The president doesn’t listen to advice. He doesn’t value the expertise of his advisers. He keeps his own counsel. He then acts on some gut impulse.<\/p>\n

So, with the departure of the American Manufacturing Advisory Council and the Strategy and Policy Forum we haven’t lost anything of great value — to this administration.<\/p>\n

The context, though, is important.<\/p>\n

CEOs from both panels — which serve on a volunteer basis — were bailing en masse as a result of Trump’s hideous and jaw-dropping rant on Tuesday about the Charlottesville riot, the one where he blamed “both sides” for the violence and the tragic death of Heather Heyer and those two Virginia state troopers.<\/p>\n

Moreover, they had informed the president of their intention to quit, effectively ending their existence. Trump, though, decided to get ahead of them with a tweet that said he was taking the initiative and ending the councils himself.<\/p>\n

Put another way: Donald Trump lied. Again. Plainly.<\/p>\n

It’s the context<\/em> of these councils’ demise that gives this story its legs.<\/p>\n

If only the president would have valued whatever advice they could provide him, then the country would be the lesser for their departure.<\/p>\n

Many of us are left to wonder: Are White House staffers and, oh, possibly Cabinet members next to head for the exits?<\/p>\n\n

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The dismantling of two advisory councils by the president of the United States won’t matter in the grand scheme of the Donald John Trump administration’s method of operation. The president doesn’t listen to advice. He doesn’t value the expertise of his advisers. He keeps his own counsel. He then acts on some gut impulse. So, … Continue reading Business advisory councils’ demise no huge deal, except …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[7246,1424,7247,5246],"class_list":["post-23951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","tag-business-advisory-councils","tag-donald-trump","tag-west-wing","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23952,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23951\/revisions\/23952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}