Gee, interesting that none of the J6'ers or even Trump was ever charged with insurrection.
Maybe cuz it wasn't one?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
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Maybe cuz it wasn't one?
You put way too much trust in google or whatever search engine you use. Just because the internet says something, doesn't make it true.
Speaking of living in fictional bubbles...
trump appointed the first gay cabinet member? Really? Who did trump appoint?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple.
Following Trump's win, Cook congratulated him on social media site X, and in December, Cook had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Cook aimed to maintain a relationship with Trump during Trump's first term as president, and it appears Cook plans to continue on with that plan going forward.
Sources that spoke to Axios said that Cook is donating to the inauguration "in the spirit of unity." Apple is not expected to make a donation.
Trump is taking office as Apple faces regulatory pressure both in the United States and in other countries. In March 2024, Apple was sued by the United States Department of Justice for allegedly violating antitrust law in multiple ways with its platforms. The Apple vs. DoJ legal battle will play out during Trump's term.
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.
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Good for Tim Apple to kiss the ring of Trump!
I'm glad that Apple is not making a donation, but I'm shocked and saddened Tim would do that.
The erosion of democratic norms, the popular support for authoritarianism, the concentration of power in the executive branch, populism, and xenophobia are US political trends that transcend Trump. The country is in danger of slipping into a Latin-America-style hyperpresidentialism. The BOD and executives of Apple have a fiduciary duty to provide a return to its shareholders. It would be working counter to that duty if it didn't placate the ego of the orange one.
Would you rather pay an extra 100% tariff on your next iPhone or other Apple product purchase?
The Art of The Deal. Opening moves. Well played, Tim.
Hopefully, Mexico and Canada will not be participating in the tariff wars with China that Trump is promising. The grey market on Apple products imported to border countries will be profitable for smugglers.
I mean sure as a CEO you can get into a battle with the president who is threatening crushing tariffs particularly with a country that Apple both views as a huge market and the place where a lot of hardware gets made and that would hurt the company greatly. I mean musk donate 250x this amount to buy his influence, which I imagine Tim is far more worried about since Musk seems to dislike Apple, and is in a position to influence Dementia Don.
Huh? If you imagine Trump is doing anything like bringing jobs back to the US, I want to smoke what you're smoking! Tarrifs will destroy american jobs as inflation jumps, there is no way to casually onshore tech jobs like Apple. Look at the insane expense that TMSC is paying to build a fab in Arizona (it's like $12b all in and much of that is because of the CHIPS act that Biden got passed which Dementia Don wants to kill only because Biden did it (in the same way he did with everything Obama did, even if it was something he supported it had to be killed). I remember when apple was asked to move iPhone production back to the US, and they noted the factory employed like 5x more engineers than existed in the entire US, in a single factory (chinese labor is rapidly becoming less cheap compared to US, but they emphasized STEM education while we don't). But hey when we get rid of the dept of education, we will undoubtably get far more engineers and scientists in the US to work at plants like that.
No it doesn’t necessarily mean you hate trans people. It just means you don’t understand the issue well enough.
Ah yes, things were going way better between 2017-2021
Macrumors has some very lost readers with short memories. I’m passing the tariffs right into their wallet, not moving my production from shenzhen to Wisconsin when my 50 competitors stay in China.
It’s an egregious regressive tax on non wealthy people.
And before they say they’re not my customer… we have 7000 items on Amazon. Odds are they’ve been our customer.
To be fair the power of the president has always been closer to that of a King than the power actual monarchs have these days. Anyway, my point here is more specifically to Trump and the fact that he is a convicted criminal and acts like the law doesn’t apply to him- like monarchs of old.
Tim Cook donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund because Cook wants America to be an oligarchy. Cook wants the president to use taxpayer money to pay for corporate tax cuts and corporate welfare.
I've been saying all along that Cook is a greedy corporate scumbag, and the first post in this thread is proof of that.
I'm sure the Tim Cook apologists will make excuses for him, saying he has a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders, as if that is the pinnacle of morality. How is that a greater moral good than helping less fortunate ordinary people who need help?
Scum like Trump (and Harris) oppose free healthcare and free college education by saying it's "socialism," but they are totally fine with socialism for corporations. And Cook donated $1 million to make sure that continues.
I've been saying all along that Cook is a greedy corporate scumbag, and the first post in this thread is proof of that.
I'm sure the Tim Cook apologists will make excuses for him, saying he has a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders, as if that is the pinnacle of morality. How is that a greater moral good than helping less fortunate ordinary people who need help?
Scum like Trump (and Harris) oppose free healthcare and free college education by saying it's "socialism," but they are totally fine with socialism for corporations. And Cook donated $1 million to make sure that continues.
My family lived there until very recently, so I'd been following it since before the billionaire investors were exposed (there was major concern that it was China or another foreign adversary buying up land around the Travis Air Force Base). Not even I realized the extent of what was happening until I watched the video.
You're totally missing the point
It's not about visiting a President or even donating to them
It's about this particular one .. in this moment in history, with the track record to this point and the context of what he's wanting to do and saying he will do.
"We're going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected."
"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."
“You also had some very fine people on both sides."
It actually makes a WHOLE lot of sense, you're just choosing to ignore why.
Obama raised $53 million in 2009, with a self-imposed cap of $50k from individuals and no donations from corporations.
Biden's inaugural committee raised somewhere around $62 million. They self imposed a cap of $1 million from corporations and $500k from individuals. They did not accept donations from fossil fuel companies, their executives, or PACs.
In his first term, Trump raised $107 million. This time, Trump is already greater than $150 million. Trump accepts unlimited donations from anyone. In 2017, over 25% of the funds donated to Trump's inaugural committee were spent at Trump-Affiliated businesses, such as Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
There are no federal laws limiting donations to inaugural committees, but donations must be reported. It would be great if we could get billionaire and corporate money out of politics in the US because even when there is no conflict of interests (as there certainly was with Trump in 2017), the scientific research on bounded ethicality shows it matters and it makes politics stink of 3rd-world political corruption.
Have to wait another 5 years unfortunately for the next election. God knows what state the country will be in by then.
I doubt Steve would have sunk to this level. He had principles, which he aggressively imposed on everyone involved with his products (and his users at times).
Tim is going to look silly when his "donation" doesn't spare Apple from a massive trade war sparked by indiscriminate tariffs (ultimately, a tax on Apple's US customers).
Tim is going to look silly when his "donation" doesn't spare Apple from a massive trade war sparked by indiscriminate tariffs (ultimately, a tax on Apple's US customers).
Ok. The monarch thing was more tongue in cheek and an observation that goes way back regarding the US presidency. Trump’s behaviour is what I’m getting at, which is unlike almost any president before him. He acts like the rules don’t apply to him. And Tim Cook genuflecting to him, as a convicted criminal, is unfortunate. But cash is king I guess.