Ohh shocking!! A US company CEO donated to the inagural fund of the new president elected by the people (idiots).
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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Pathetic thinly veiled bribe
Or it is protection money. “Nice apple you got there, would be a shame if anyone took a bite out of that”….
Why would Tim Cook be assosiated with Apple in trumps mind?
Apple is owned by Tim Apple.
Kind of strange that this line cook is able to afford a small 1 million dollar loan.......what? You think trump knows that a loan is different than a donation? You think he knows you're supposed to pay back loans?
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If any company could insulate itself from Trump's agenda, it would be Apple with its "fuck you" money.
This is cowardly and craven.
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Needs to make sure there’s a loophole for Apple production when more China tariffs hit.
What the fucking, fuck.
This is one of the reasons why I am gradually untying myself from the Apple ecosystem, and all of propriety/big tech; especially US based.
When push comes to shove capitalism will not resist fascism. They will ignore all stated virtue signals and choose profits.
Choosing E2E encrypted FOSS products, that are interoperable with FOSS standards/formats and do not lock you into walled gardens, are the only viable long term solution.
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Amazon, Meta, Uber, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Coinbase, Toyota, Ford, GM, AT&T, Black & Decker, and Charter Communications are also making donations to Trump's inauguration fund.
I guess I never really paid attention before but is it normal for companies to donate to an inauguration fund? It sure seems like a government sanctioned protection racket.
Only since Citizens United.
you’re thinking of FECA probably. inauguration vs campaign funds are different things, and Citizens United was about campaign funds.
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Fuck Tim Apple
Bad gay!
When you’re a traitor to your own kind for the sake of an unquenchable thirst for profit, you become an enemy to LGBTQ+ folks. Siding with the neo-Nazis only makes it worse.
Fuck you, Tim Apple
Steve Jobs would have fired you the instant he thought you might do this. He might’ve been a legendary prick for his entire career, but at least he had a set of ethics and morals.
It's not just LGBTQ+ folks. Anyone not male, straight, white, christian, republican or natural born is in the firing line.
I think the point is that Tim Apple is all of these things (so he need not care) except straight.
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It really goes to show what kind of times we're living in when Steve Jobbs is the limbo bar to measure good ethics that everyone today is clearing under.
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It's not going to make him remember your actual name, Tim.
You'll always be Tim Apple to him.
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Have inauguration funds always been a thing? Or is this a Trump thing? What’s the purpose?
I can understand campaign funds. But if you’ve won I don’t know if I understand a candidate specific donation after the fact.
Previous administrations have used special government funds that are dedicated to the transition and inauguration. This comes with obvious restrictions and ethics requirements since it is taxpayer money.
Trump has decided to not use this money and get donations instead, which allows him and his incoming administration to skirt the normal mandatory reporting, disclosures, and rules.
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It's tribute to the new emperor hoping that he won't go after them. Gotta play nice while they can.
Tim Cook is hoping to be spared when Trump starts purging gay people.
Hey, he's a billionaire. Being gay is only illegal if you're poor like everything else.
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The personal donation part is weird. This sounds like a deliberate attempt to appease the fascists while trying, desperately, to maintain Apple's image.
$1 million seems to be the going fealty price for these people.
Typical CEO tribute to the newly crowned King of the United States for some tariff exemptions.
That's probably 2% of their holiday bonus!
It's from his own money, not that it makes things any better.
Yes, not really better at all. These donations are all symbols, not meaningful except as a show of obeisance. So we should interpret it along the same symbolic parameters.
It's being framed as a personal donation because Cook is acquiescing to Trump's pending authoritarian takeover, but wants plausible deniability that that imputes to Apple. But since Tim Cook is the one acquiescing and he leads Apple, it's indistinguishable from the same thing. It carries the same message: Apple won't get in your way, do what you will.
What a little bitch..
You best start believing in technofeudal distopias, you're living in one.
Corruption as always. Regular donations ensure that whoever is currently holding power isn't going to cause [regulatory] problems
It's worse than that. There's a level of hypocrisy here in that a company marketing itself as inclusive has a CEO who is donating to a far right, authoritarian slush fund. This isn't business as usual.
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