As co-founder with Nell Minow of the Apology Institute of America, I was intrigued to see that the CEO of the Boy Scouts FINALLY offered an apology for Trump's appearance at the group's Jamboree. However, it was pretty weak, buried down in the fourth paragraph, which is pretty late considering that the apology was the whole point of releasing the statement. And it was just a small part of a 10-paragraph statement praising themselves. It was as if he could do everything possible to hide the apology and cheerlead the organization.
The thing is, though, the problem was wasn't just that "politics were injected," which is all he apologizes for, but that the politics were divisive, and demeaned a former President of the United States, as well as the most-recent Democratic presidential candidate. As I've noted elsewhere, it seems no small thing that the CEO is head of AT&T, which is currently trying to get government approval for its buy-out merger tender of Time-Warner. So, I'm sure that apologizing for Trump's outrage was difficult for him. Tough beans. That's the job. If he can't do it, I understand, then he should quit one of them.
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