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.”
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I just knew another southerner would pick up on that...:^)
Sorkin—is he related to the Hollywood writer? As in West Wing, I think?
It just shows that many people with responsible positions in life vote for irresponsible presidential candidates — shameless individuals. That Hillary was an indisputable liar and untrustworthy politician did not seem to make an impression on them.
This dumbass b**ch needs to go back to India. What a bunch of barnyard waste!
Pepsi also owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC......boycott them all, I do.
They were “all” crying eh? So you consider “some” of your employees important and others not?
I don’t want to drink soda made by a bunch of crybabies.
I cried the day after the election in 2008 because I knew what the dumbass would do to America. I didn’t bother crying after that. I just sucked it up and waited for 2016.
Love that graphic!
Then you need to hire adults, and not baby snowflakes.’
‘Get a frigging grip of your company, and for those who are crying. GROW UP
6 words: I’ll miss my Diet Mountain Dew!
Is this stuff real? Is it possible that an entire groups is this wimpy and soft?
God forbid we ever experience another economic depression or large war. There would literally be millions who would curl up in a fetal position and accept death. Worthless, spinless dweebs.
A phrase I say to my kids.
Pepsi Co. is free to make Hillary Clinton their CFO and permit her to run her email accounts under a variety of aliases on an unsecured server in a bathroom.
If they trust her so, let her be in charge of Pepsi’s corporate finances.
It’s so cool that it can be sympathetic or sarcastic...*LOL*
Yep. I have always used it as a sarc way to the snowflakes, but a couple of times a dozy person actually agrees with me, and has no clue what I was really getting at.
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