Following other American business leaders, Kevin Plank, founder and chief executive of Under Armour, resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council after the U.S. president failed to criticize an outburst of white suprematist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in mid-August. Plank had been initially an enthusiastic supporter of Trump because of his pro-business attitude. Like other industry leaders, he began to distance himself from Trump when he started to curb immigration into the U.S. and then when he pulled the U.S. out from the Paris Climate Agreement. Other members of the presidential council who are running Disney, Intel, Merck and Tesla have also quit, leading Trump to announce on Twitter that he will wind up this and other councils that he had set up at the start of his mandate.

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