Baltimore-based Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank announced Aug. 14 that he is leaving President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council. Plank said, "Under Armour engages in innovation and sports, not politics."
The manufacturing council has been in the news since Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned early Aug. 14 citing Trump's delayed denouncement of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in which one woman was killed and 19 others were injured when a car rammed into counter protestors. Two Virginia state troopers were also killed in a related helicopter crash.
Plank's statement did not mention Charlottesville specifically.
