London (CNN Business)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!"
The rally followed a series of racist tweets in which Trump suggested that four minority congresswomen "go back" to their home countries. Three were born in America and all four are US citizens.
Kaeser suggested that Trump's attacks do not reflect the America he knows. He worked as chief financial officer of Siemens Microelectronics in San Jose, California, during the 1990s.
"I lived in the USA for many years and experienced freedom, tolerance and openness as never before," he said in his Twitter (
TWTR) post.
„Send her back, send her back“ - wenn das Schule macht, müssen wir auf einmal noch Trump zurücknehmen.
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Many corporate leaders expressed optimism in the early days of the Trump administration that they could find common ground with a president who had run a business of his own and who wanted to cut corporate taxes and slash regulations. But the administration's focus on immigration and other divisive social issues, combined with its aggressive prosecution of a trade war with China, has soured the White House's relationship with many big global companies.
Kaeser, 62, who started work at Siemens in 1980 and become CEO in 2013, has demonstrated a willingness to speak frankly on controversial political issues.