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
eat shit tim apple
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
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
Quislings.
It’s like Russia but with good advertising. What a shithole.
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)!
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.
Fuckers out here getting denied for health insurance claims at record rates while money flows like a raging river from corps to pols
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 🤮
