Trump’s CEO brain trust comes up short on big ideas for policies

Matt Townsend, Shannon Pettypiece and Joe Deaux

08/03/2017

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP center, speaks as Ivanka Trump, daughter of Trump, from left, Bayo Ogunlesi, chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners, Ginni Rometty, president and CEO of International Business Machine Corp., Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc., Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder and CEO of Blackstone Group LP, Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors Co., Gary Cohn, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and Laurence Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock Inc., listen. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

NEW YORK - Elon Musk of Tesla and Walt Disney’s Bob Iger have quit. Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co. and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon have dissented. President Donald Trump’s business brain trust - originally these executives, plus some 50 other chief executive officers chosen to help shape White House policy - has so far…

Register to keep reading or subscribe today and receive unlimited access.
Already a Subscriber?

If you have already logged in and are still seeing this message, please refresh the page as your browser is caching the old content.

Want to share this story? Click Here to purchase a link that allows anyone to read it on any device whether or not they are a subscriber.