A top CEO calls out Trump's racism
CNN Business,
by
Charles Riley
Original Article
Posted By: john56,
7/22/2019 3:42:34 PM
London - The CEO of German industrial giant Siemens says that President Donald Trump is becoming a symbol of intolerance following his attacks on four female members of Congress. "I find it depressing that the most important political office in the world is turning into the face of racism and exclusion," Joe Kaeser said Saturday on Twitter. Kaeser's remarks are the most prominent criticism from the business world in reaction to Trump's rally last week in North Carolina. The US president attacked Somali-born Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar and the crowd chanted "Send her back! Send her back!"
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/22/2019 3:47:26 PM (No. 130806)
Top GERMAN CEO.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vesicant 7/22/2019 3:47:38 PM (No. 130807)
First, how is CNN still an approved source for Lucianne? Second, angela merkel.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/22/2019 3:50:25 PM (No. 130810)
I'm always interested to hear Germans' views on race.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
cartcart 7/22/2019 3:51:19 PM (No. 130812)
The "Germans" killed a lot of people during WW I and WW II. I think their credibility is pretty much shot at this point and they are to be disregarded when it comes to dealing with minorities. They hardly need a reminder.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HerbVA 7/22/2019 3:52:13 PM (No. 130814)
I am sick of hearing aspersions on the USA from foreigners. Why should any American give a rats buttocks about their views? Especially some German whose country the USA rebuilt after summarily defeating it in WWII and whose country now is overrun with the 7th century Satanic blood cult “ refugees”.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Cindiana 7/22/2019 4:01:59 PM (No. 130829)
Prepare yourself for some blowback from PDT, Joey. Or do you prefer Kaeser? Wonder if you'll get that special pronunciation treatment he sometimes uses for Angela.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chuckster 7/22/2019 4:06:19 PM (No. 130837)
Keep in mind that Germany gets its impression of the USA from CNN International. This CEO should be smart enough to see the distortions, lies, and bias. Apparently he isn't.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/22/2019 4:13:51 PM (No. 130840)
So Joey, do you know what Trump said and if so where do you find race to have entered the equation? Do you accept Trump racism as fact because our left says so, or do you have some criteria that you have thought out and believe in and evidence of Trump's qualification for the label?
You know, judging people to be unworthy of association just because of a political expediency is kind of a German thing. What is happening to the conservatives, successful middle class in particular has a few parallels to the Jews in Germany and Kulaks in Russia. I hope you are proud of yourself for having something in common with the most evil despots to have ever trod upon planet earth. And the Pferd you rode in on.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ScottC 7/22/2019 4:21:07 PM (No. 130849)
Siemens and China are financially joined at the hip at this point. Follow the money.....this sniveling Chinese poodle is doing his masters bidding.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HPmatt 7/22/2019 4:23:15 PM (No. 130851)
Siemens, selling equipment to Iran, cheating on contracts, all sorts of multinationaly thievery. Probably sold VW equipment to cheat on diesel emission testing...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/22/2019 4:26:27 PM (No. 130854)
I agree wholeheartedly with #3.
It's always refreshing to get a lecture on morality from a German. Kind of puts a bounce in my step - - or should I say my goose step?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 7/22/2019 4:27:13 PM (No. 130855)
OK, let's start looking at what items that Siemens sells in the USA that we can all stop purchasing.
And Germans had best not talk about racism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/22/2019 4:28:43 PM (No. 130859)
Please inform the Krauts and the Neo Nazis that they need Trump a lot more than he needs them. He certainly does not need their approval. My personal memories go back 70 years. Just gimme a reason, Bosch.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/22/2019 4:32:57 PM (No. 130861)
And we care what a "German CEO" has to say, why exactly, CN freakin' N?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Upright2 7/22/2019 4:46:12 PM (No. 130872)
If they can't stand the heat, they should stay out of the kitchen.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/22/2019 4:57:47 PM (No. 130877)
We don't heed criticism from a country we defeated two world wars. We also don't need moral advice from the company who sold Iran the hundreds of centrifuges needed to enrich Uranium for their nuclear bomb. Blow it out your kraut-hole, leftist prig.
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The people supporting human trafficking calling the President names. Oh Please, cheap slave labor is what the Germans have always supported and now it is no different.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ho72 7/22/2019 5:14:57 PM (No. 130888)
OK, so how's all that Muslim "inclusion" workin' for you in Deutschland? Speak up. Can't hear you.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/22/2019 5:53:53 PM (No. 130905)
I was working for Siemens 0n 9/11. The following day, mein feuhrer issued an email wherein he lectured us that violence was not the answer.
Wasnt long before I was proudly displaying my Axis of Weasels computer wallpaper.
The last thing that I want is a lecture by effite Europeans.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 7/22/2019 6:00:01 PM (No. 130909)
Hey, #10, I consider VW heroes for defeating the EPA and making their cars run will and get better fuel economy.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 7/22/2019 6:49:38 PM (No. 130942)
The same Siemens company that used slave labor in their factories that mad eelectrical parts for Nazi concentration camps and death camps.
Spare us your lectures, Fritz.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
GW_Rider 7/22/2019 7:21:32 PM (No. 130960)
I always take advice on morality from Germans.
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I ought to cancel my reservations for Oktoberfest. Unfortunately, most of them required full payment in advance.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 7/22/2019 7:48:12 PM (No. 130973)
But those blue-eyed blonds of the 3rd Reich were so beautiful. I brought one home in '69 and she immediately turned into the Gestapo SS. Es macht nichts (mox nix) ;(
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
liberty316 7/22/2019 8:02:10 PM (No. 130983)
No offense meant to any other posters, but don't be too quick to judge modern German's for the crimes of the Nazi's. While the guy is clearly an idiot for thinking Trump is racist, I'm a Southerner and I get pretty irritated when people assume I'm racist because of my accent or simply because I live in the former Confederacy. No man is guilty because of what his father did. If you think differently, then you might have a hard time arguing against slave reparations.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Frenesi1 7/22/2019 8:41:55 PM (No. 131009)
Wouldn't you think Germans have enough problems that they could mind their own business and stay out of ours?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
wsdiego 7/22/2019 9:06:02 PM (No. 131027)
The left lives in a scatatonic world!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
SALady 7/22/2019 9:15:20 PM (No. 131045)
You can not "call out" that which does not exist!!!!
But, hey, don't let logic, reason, or facts stop a lie-beral from a mindless rant!!!!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Penney 7/22/2019 9:52:11 PM (No. 131093)
Headline assumes far too much. ...What, ''racism?!'' Pres. Trump is accused of this only by the radical political opponents who can't prove anything. Infact, to the contrary, Pres. Trump's actions & respect for others throughout the years reveal the opposite. CNN is not a credible news source.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/22/2019 11:47:58 PM (No. 131176)
Not condoning the CEOs comments but Siemens has a huge presence within the US in many major industries, including aerospace, transportation, materials movement, health care, and defense. They manufacture a lot of products here in the US and even played an integral technological role in the Apollo 11 mission. Siemens USA does over $5.5 B in annual exports and employs over 50k in the US. They are more than simply a German interest but their CEO ought not to be bad mouthing our president, taking the democrats/media narrative at face value.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/23/2019 1:48:51 AM (No. 131245)
I don't feel like I need to be lectured on tolerance, particularly by some rich German whose company was a huge exploiter of SLAVE LABOR during WWII!!! Intolerance of The Squad is fine by me.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
anonymous 7/23/2019 2:09:11 AM (No. 131258)
I think there is footage of Herr Hitler speaking at a Siemens function in 1933.
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You know, if I were the CEO of the company who supplied the Nazis with many of the killing machines of the Holocaust, I'd keep my mouth shut. And notice when leftist say racist things, if they are reported it's "allegedly racist." If it's Trump, they are judged "racist." Well, as we say about liberals -- if they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.