Andi’s Writeup
Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration fund, joining other tech leaders making similar contributions1,2. The donation comes from Cook’s personal funds, not from Apple, which is not expected to make a contribution3.
Cook met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in December 2024, continuing their relationship from Trump’s first term4. According to Axios, Cook believes "the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity"2.
Other major tech figures making $1 million donations include Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman5. Companies like Toyota, Ford, GM, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America are also contributing1. Donors giving $1 million receive high-level access to Trump and his inner circle, including tickets to eight inaugural events and a private dinner with Trump and Melania on January 191.
The inaugural committee aims to raise over $150 million, which would break the previous record of $107 million set at Trump’s 2017 inauguration6. The inauguration is scheduled for January 20, 20257.
Footnotes
1- Variety, 2025-01-03
2- The Verge, 2025-01-03
3- MacRumors, 2025-01-03
4- 9to5Mac, 2025-01-03
5- CBS News
6- The Independent
7- LiveMint
Pay tribute to your king, bootlicker.
They’re not even hiding it anymore.
Now with Trump they don’t even need to do it. “Happy” 2025 🤮
Quislings.
Did they also donate to Bidens inauguration?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pfizer-unions-others-donated-618-mln-bidens-inaugural-2021-04-21/
America is so fucked up.
Thats what I am wondering. If so, its just standard lobbyism. If not, its time for me to continue not buying apple products. (And the others)
“Standard lobbyism” towards fascists still puts them in a reprehensible club along with all those companies that collaborated with the Nazis. It matters who you’re paying.
Andi’s Writeup
Million-Dollar Donors to Trump’s 2025 Inauguration
Corporate Donations
- Amazon - $1 million, plus airing inauguration on Prime Video 12
- Meta (Facebook) - $1 million1
- Ford Motor Company - $1 million12
- General Motors - $1 million2
- Toyota - $1 million1
- Coinbase - $1 million1
- Robinhood - $2 million1
- Uber - $1 million1
Individual/CEO Donations
- Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) - $1 million personal donation1
- Ken Griffin (Citadel founder) - $1 million12
- Tim Cook (Apple CEO) - $1 million personal donation3
- Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO) - $1 million personal donation1
Larger Donations
-Ripple - $5 million in XRP cryptocurrency2
Sources:
Footnotes
1- Business Insider
2- CNN
3- The Verge
It’s like Russia but with good advertising. What a shithole.
Meanwhile, Ann Telnaes, the cartoonist at WaPo has resigned, after her cartoon (see link below) satirising all this toadying behaviour was rejected:
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
Yes, I’ve seen it before, but sensible people are a minority unfortunately
eat shit tim apple
Fuckers out here getting denied for health insurance claims at record rates while money flows like a raging river from corps to pols
The US, where the bribes are legal.
Those weren’t bribes! They were simply payments for favors/other assumed benefits, gosh!
They were free speech (using dollars for words)!
