General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt Wednesday morning joined the exodus of executives quitting the manufacturing council that had been advising President Trump — before Trump issued a declaration over Twitter that he would disband the group and a second panel of business advisers.

Immelt, in a statement, said he found Trump’s statements Tuesday about the weekend incidents in Charlottesville, Va., to be “deeply troubling.” There would be no GE, Immelt said, without employees of all races, religions, genders, and sexual orientations.

Immelt, the chief executive of Boston-based GE until Aug. 1, had initially held out as other members of the manufacturing council quit in the wake of Trump’s early remarks on Charlottesville. He had argued that remaining on the council allowed GE to engage with government on economic policies important to the company and its customers.