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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