In what way did the executives "prop up rumors"? They were responding to employees and their families who got trapped outside the country by the travel ban executive order. What's rumor about that?

I was speaking generally, as was the post to which I responded. I don't know the particulars of the Google executives' comments.

What is considered 'professional' today might not be tomorrow. I for one would welcome more genuine personality in the corporate world and can think of many things I'd like to see become considered acceptable.

Maybe, but that's inconsistent with the demands for greater professionalism and accountability that we've seen our society place on executives and other authority figures in recent years. Notably, any comment that can be remotely perceived as questioning the progressive narrative is equivalent to violence, white supremacy, Nazism, etc. I care less whether we expect greater or lesser professionalism from executives so long as "professionalism" isn't a partisan proxy war.