Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick has quit President Donald Trump’s business advisory council on the eve of its first meeting, after mounting criticism from passengers and drivers angry over the president’s immigration order.
The move will raise the stakes for other executives on the council, including leaders from Blackstone, IBM, GE, GM, Disney, Pepsi and Tesla. Several have already voiced concerns about the travel ban but none has been as critical as Uber, which said the order was “unfair, wrong and against everything we stand for as a company”.
Uber has been grappling with a social media campaign that went viral over the weekend urging users to #deleteUber as a way to protest against Mr Trump’s immigration order and Mr Kalanick’s role on the advisory council.