An advisory board that counsels Donald Trump on trade and the economy picked up three new members on Wednesday, including a CEO who was attacked after the November 8 election for saying her employees were visibly upset and crying after Trump won the presidency.

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and SpaceX and Tesla visionary Elon Musk are both joining the President's Strategic and Policy Forum, but it's PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi who will draw the most attention.

Far-right conservatives threatened a PepsiCo boycott last month over a widely circulated but fake comment attributed to Nooyi, that Trump supporters should 'take their business elsewhere.'

But she did say during a Nov. 10 New York Times conference that her daughters and employees 'were all in mourning' when Trump became president-elect – setting herself up as a straw-woman target for Republicans who sought evidence that a liberal American 'establishment' was aligned against the president-elect.

PepsiCo CEO Indro Nooyi has joined a Trump administration advisory group that will counsel Donald Trump on the economy – despite saying her employees were crying after he won

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick (left) and SpaceX and Tesla visionary Elon Musk (right) are also joining the President's Strategic and Policy Forum

The Trump transition team's press office did not respond to a request for comment.

But Trump said Wednesday in a statement that 'America has the most innovative and vibrant companies in the world, and the pioneering CEOs joining this Forum today are at the top of their fields.'

'My Administration is going to work together with the private sector to improve the business climate and make it attractive for firms to create new jobs across the United States from Silicon Valley to the heartland.'

Nooyi herself expressed a desire for unity during the New York Times event, hoping aloud that Trump's confrontational campaign style might melt in the bright lights of Oval Office scrutiny.

'I'm sincerely hoping, based on the talk we heard from our president-elect the day after the election, that what we heard before the election and what we are really going to see in action are quite different, and it's much more measured,' she said.

'What we heard was election talk,' Nooyi added later. 'And we will all come together and unify the country. So the process of democracy happened. We just have to let life go on.'

She also said she wanted 'to congratulate President-elect Donald Trump, because the election is over. I think we should mourn, for those of us who supported the other side. But we have to come together.'

But Nooyi did express worries that PepsiCo and other companies could suffer if Trump followed through on threats to slap tariffs on U.S. corporations that offshore jobs.

'What I worry about is that there might be discrimination against American companies overseas if there is protectionism in the United States,' Nooyi warned.

That concern could explain her willingness to link arms with Team Trump.

'I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters (pictured at right),' Nooyi said of the post-election shock

But Nooyi reflected on fears she heard expressed after Trump's victory was in the books.

She recalled that she 'had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees. They were all in mourning.'

Her employees 'were all crying,' Nooyi said. And the question that they're asking, especially those who are not white: "Are we safe?" Women are asking: "Are we safe?" LGBT people are asking: "Are we safe?" I never thought I'd have had to answer those questions.'

A PepsiCo spokesperson later told The Washington Post that Nooyi 'misspoke' when she said 'all' her employees were mourning Trump's victory.

'She was referring to the reaction of a group of employees she spoke to who were apprehensive about the outcome of the election. She never intended to imply that all employees feel the same way,' the spokesperson said.

Fortune magazine obtained an internal company memo Nooyi sent to her workforce, in which she said: 'I want to congratulate President-elect Donald Trump on his victory, and I wish him all the best as he begins the work of stewarding this country in the months and years ahead.'