Audi CEO's appearance at Trump rally was 'deeply embarrassing', IG Metall head says
Audi CEO's appearance at Trump rally was 'deeply embarrassing', IG Metall head says FRANKFURT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The head of Germany's biggest trade union IG Metall and deputy chair of Volkswagen's VOWG_p.DE supervisory board on Monday harshly criticised Audi's CEO for speaking at an election campaign event of US President Donald Trump over the weekend.
Gernot Doellner on Saturday appeared alongside Trump at a rally in Perry, near Macon in central Georgia on Saturday, as the US president said Audi, part of Volkswagen Group, planned to build a $4 billion assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually.
"The way in which Gernot Doellner has presented himself and Audi in the US is deeply embarrassing, politically unacceptable and unworthy of the company," Christiane Benner said in a statement, adding the appearance had violated Audi's corporate rules.
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz
Editing by Ludwig Burger)((christoph.steitz@thomsonreuters.com; +49 30 220 133 647;))
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