The executive who guided the coffee chain Starbucks to global success is stepping down later this month, and is reportedly considering a run for the White House.

"I want to be truthful with you without creating more speculative headlines," outgoing CEO Howard Schultz told the New York Times, address the feculent and decaying state of US politics in the era of the orange clown Donald Trump.  "For some time now, I have been deeply concerned about our country - the growing division at home and our standing in the world."

Schultz has been involved with the Democratic Party for some time, and endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.  Since then, he has expressed dismay over the racism and bigotry that is running rampant in the US since Trump failed to condemn the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year.  "My fear is not only that this behavior is being given permission and license, but its conduct is being normalized to the point where people are no longer hiding their face," Schultz said after the so-called "unite the right" mayhem, which included the vehicular homicide of an unarmed, peaceful counter-protester by a cowardly chunk of nazi garbage in a used Dodge.

Under Schultz's leadership, Starbucks has taken progressive stances on social issues like race relations, gay marriage, and immigration.  He directly took on Trump's travel ban on people from predominantly Muslim countries and crackdown on undocumented migration by offering to hire 5,000 immigrants.

Schultz has also bucked the trend in US business to chip away at health benefits, where most Americans get their health care coverage because the wealthiest nation on earth can't or won't provide government-run universal healthcare to its citizens.  Since 1988, Starbucks has offered health care to all full-time and part-time employees.  Three months ago, the company claimed to have achieved gender and race pay equity among all of its workers.