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Pepsi CEO: 'My Employees Were All Crying' After Trump Won
Yahoo News ^ | December 14, 2016 | Julia La Roche

Posted on 12/14/2016 6:30:49 PM PST by drewh

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump added three more high-profile CEOs — Pepsi (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk — to his Strategic and Policy Forum.

“My Administration is going to work together with the private sector to improve the business climate and make it attractive for firms to create new jobs across the United States from Silicon Valley to the heartland,” Trump said in a statement.

With Pepsi’s Nooyi on board, expect there to be plenty of discussion about some serious issues.

Just two days after the election, Nooyi, a Hillary Clinton supporter, spoke at the Dealbook Conference.

“Is there a box of tissues here?” Nooyi responded when asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin for her reaction to the election results. “I’ll tell you, first of all, I want to congratulate President Donald Trump. Because the election is over, I think, we should mourn for those of us who supported the other side, but we have to come together and life has to go on.”

She added that she had to answer a lot of questions from both her employees.

“They were all in mourning. My employees were all crying. The question that they are asking, especially those who are not white — ‘Are we safe?’ Women are asking, ‘Are we safe?’ LGBT people are asking, ‘Are we safe?’ I never thought I would have to answer those questions.”

She continued: “So, I think that the first thing that we have to do is to assure everyone living in the United States will be safe. Nothing has changed because of this election. What we heard was election talk and we will all come together and unify as a country. So, the process of democracy happened. We just have to let life go on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boycottpepsi; boycottpepsico; corporateliberalism; homofascism
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To: JBW1949

:)


61 posted on 12/14/2016 7:04:46 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: drewh

Screw you, tramp

#BoycottPepsico


62 posted on 12/14/2016 7:06:44 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: drewh

rename pepsi to ‘pussy’ and be done with it.


63 posted on 12/14/2016 7:07:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: drewh

That’s because the moron forgot to run a business and ran a social commentary company instead. Pepsi products suck. They give me the shits.


64 posted on 12/14/2016 7:08:23 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: drewh

Oh Pepsi, don’t you have another Jackson to light on fire?


65 posted on 12/14/2016 7:08:34 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Cvengr

I drink Diet Pepsi, and I’m no liberal.


66 posted on 12/14/2016 7:16:33 PM PST by Luke21
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To: proud American in Canada

I remember when Carter, Clinton, and Obama were elected.

It was a definite downer, but as you said, who cries at that stuff? Conservatives bear down and know that their day is a coming.

Here we are. Let the good times roll...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCmkZFMSuFQ


67 posted on 12/14/2016 7:25:06 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: All

And I haven’t purchased even one Pepsi (or subsidiary thereof) product for the 40 days since she first publicly said these B.S. Idiotic lies.

Prior to that I spent about 20 dollars a week on her products. I hope at least a million other people with similar consumption rates have boycotted them....

See how her Board of Directors like sales to be down by $20 million a week.


68 posted on 12/14/2016 7:27:05 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Another reason that I don’t drink Pepsi.

sugar water poison.

69 posted on 12/14/2016 7:28:58 PM PST by alrea
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To: sailor76

Actually Pepsico sold them off a few years ago.

Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC are now owned by YUM! Brands.


70 posted on 12/14/2016 7:33:52 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: sailor76

They also are not buying any Stupor Bowl ads this year.


71 posted on 12/14/2016 7:37:10 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: drewh

Pepsi sells deadly “food” products.


72 posted on 12/14/2016 7:41:17 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: drewh

73 posted on 12/14/2016 7:44:08 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Genoa

Royal Crown


74 posted on 12/14/2016 7:46:06 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: drewh

Maybe SNL can do a skit on Pepsi and Pelosi!


75 posted on 12/14/2016 7:50:22 PM PST by Jumper
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To: drewh

Sweetheart, if too many employees were crying it means (1) you need to fire your head of HR and (2) maybe you’ve been hiring too many women and too many girly-men.


76 posted on 12/14/2016 8:08:02 PM PST by tom h
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To: LegendHasIt
Actually Pepsico sold them off a few years ago.
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC are now owned by YUM! Brands.

Thanks for the info, I stand corrected.

77 posted on 12/14/2016 8:27:25 PM PST by sailor76 (GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
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To: drewh

Lady, you better hope that wasn’t “just election talk”. We didn’t vote for a politician; we voted for someone who promised to get rid of politics as usual, and we expect him to do that. If we should stabbed in the back, (and I don’t think we will) there will be trash to haul out of the White House in four years. I’m betting on Trump, and glad you have decided to go along, but don’t think for a minute that things are going to be business as usual.


78 posted on 12/14/2016 8:29:17 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: drewh

Yes, tell the American people Pepsi is run by idiots who thought Hillary was a decent candidate. Especially if you don’t want to sell to half of America.


79 posted on 12/14/2016 8:30:41 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Vince Ferrer

“My employees were all..”

Her employees knew she supported Hillary, and if they were smart and wanted to keep their jobs any of them that supported Trump would likely not dare make this known.


80 posted on 12/14/2016 8:33:30 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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