The President of the United States, Donald Trump, yesterday criticized the resignation of the executive director of the pharmaceutical company Merck, Kenneth Frazier, from the National Council of Industry. Frazier left the board two days after the march of white supremacists in Charlottesville, about which Trump issued a lackluster statement according to the point of view of the 
Americans.
“Now that Merck Pharma's Ken Frazier has left the Industry Council, he will have more time to reduce drug prices!” Trump said through his Twitter account.
In a statement, Frazier said that "American leaders must honor our core values, clearly rejecting any expressions of hatred, intolerance and supremacy that contradict the American ideal that all people are created equal."
On Saturday, a group of white supremacists demonstrating in Charlottesville, Virginia, clashed with people opposing the protest. A car hit a group of opponents, leaving one dead and dozens injured.
Trump called a press conference only days later and made sweeping allegations of the violence that took place in Charlottesville, which drew criticism from within the Republican party itself, given that the president did not name far-right groups. Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Twitter that it was important for the country to hear the president describe the events as "a terrorist attack by white supremacists."
Furthermore, Republican representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen also indirectly criticized the president's statement. "White supremacists are neo-Nazis and anti-Semites are the antithesis of our American values."
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