CEOs For Communism

If 50 years from now the whole world is taking its marching orders from communist China, one reason will be that love for America withered among our elites. 

Last week, John Donahoe, the CEO of Nike, held a conference call to discuss his company's quarterly earnings. When asked about conditions in communist China and growing tensions with the West, Donahoe made it clear where his loyalties lie. He said:

"We've been in China for over 40 years, still invested significant time and energy in China in the early days, and today, we're the largest sport brand there, and we're a brand of China and for China."

Nike is "a brand of China and for China." Let that sink in for a moment. (Ironically, Donahoe's wife, Eileen, once served as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission!)

Donahoe personally makes millions of dollars a year. His company is making billions of dollars. Nike's profit margins are high because it is making shoes in communist China, likely with slave labor, while it sells those shoes at ridiculous prices to your children and grandchildren. 

Meanwhile, Nike is preening around like it's a woke corporation all in on social justice, even going so far as hiring Colin Kaepernick. They are all in on condemning America as a country built on slavery, while profiting off of slave wages/slave labor in communist China. 

In a healthy country, that's the guy who would have demonstrators outside his house every night. That's the guy who would be harassed at restaurants.

Why would Donahoe say something like that? He made a very clear calculation: He's betting that there will be no significant blowback in the U.S. (If you would like to share your thoughts with Nike, you can do so at this link.  Select the option, "Nike as a company.")

But Donahoe also knew that the communist Chinese were paying attention to that call, as Beijing's long arm of oppression now reaches all the way into the United States. And he chose to appease communist China. This supremely privileged CEO should be ashamed of himself. 

We also got another reminder of how this sickness of people profiting in America without appreciating America is spreading.