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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
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Here’s the actual invite for the event man haha. It WAS a neo-Nazi event, and you can deny it all you want, but you’re wrong. Post Snopes screenshots all you’d like.
I don’t know how there would be ANY “very fine people” on the side of this poster.
CEOs have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. They also are compensated for doing so. Financially, this was a no-brainer decision. I and others have explained — several times — why the smart and better play is for the donation to come from him and not Apple itself. You'd be well served to review that discussion.
Ain't nothing new here. It's the exact same kind of "bribe," if you're married to using that word, that is both legal and has been an accepted practice in business and politics for literally decades. That you don't like it doesn't change that fact.
In the interest of bribery, Tim Cook gave Donald Trump a million. As if money from the inauguration fund won’t somehow get siphoned right back into Trump’s bank account under the guise of fees or some other nonsense that his hotels or properties will charge his own inaugural fund.
Just like he charges the federal government an arm and a leg for rooms for his secret service detail at hotels he owns. Grifter doesn’t even begin to describe the historic nature of the profound corruption we’re now seeing on blatant display.
There was a time when that was frowned upon by the American people. Even the appearance of that was shameful enough to generate enough outrage that politicians, judges, etc. would resign. Not anymore. It’s pathetic but most people don’t care as they think they’re rooting for some team they are a part of. Newsflash. You’re not a part of their team no matter what you hear on TV. You’re just another sucker if you’re buying what most politicians, political parties and monied corporate interests both inside and outside the media are lining up to sell you on both sides of the isle. Wake up…
Just like he charges the federal government an arm and a leg for rooms for his secret service detail at hotels he owns. Grifter doesn’t even begin to describe the historic nature of the profound corruption we’re now seeing on blatant display.
There was a time when that was frowned upon by the American people. Even the appearance of that was shameful enough to generate enough outrage that politicians, judges, etc. would resign. Not anymore. It’s pathetic but most people don’t care as they think they’re rooting for some team they are a part of. Newsflash. You’re not a part of their team no matter what you hear on TV. You’re just another sucker if you’re buying what most politicians, political parties and monied corporate interests both inside and outside the media are lining up to sell you on both sides of the isle. Wake up…
Any actual evidence of Trump hating anyone from your community? Little factoid, Trump openly supported Gay marriage before Obama and Biden conveniently “evolved” to change their beliefs of marriage being between a man and a woman before their reelection campaign.
Sarcasm. He has been cast as literally Hitler, despite our collective experience to the contrary in his first term. The people who are about to be exposed are doing whatever possible to keep the wool over peoples' eyes.
That's the exact same argument the apologists for American private health insurance companies' CEOs make to defend those CEOs' decision to murder 68,000 people every year by denying them the coverage that they already paid hundreds of dollars for every month.
Tim Crapple donated $1 million to Trump in order for tax payers' money to continue not going towards government services that can help them (like free healthcare), but instead going towards corporate tax cuts and corporate welfare for companies like Apple.
I'm happy to see people finally putting aside their differences and working together. Trump is a positive force for America!
It's refreshing to see business leaders standing behind Trump instead of resorting to empty gestures of protest. (Go woke, go broke has been proven too many times in the past few years)
It's refreshing to see business leaders standing behind Trump instead of resorting to empty gestures of protest. (Go woke, go broke has been proven too many times in the past few years)
1. Healthcare & college are not free despite what Bernie Sanders, AOC and the rest of their ilk like to believe. Someone is paying for it somewhere.
2. I want to know why you, or anyone else, think that it's ok to take out thousands and thousands of dollars in loans, accumulating crushing debt in the process, for a completely useless degree and leave ME on the hook to pay YOUR bills.
Trump was not saying that about what you're insinuating. That is a 100% completely discredited lie.
Really disappointed that Tim feels it appropriate (& acceptable) to donate to the inauguration. Will be interesting to see which Z-List celebs will be in attendance on the day. Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock possibly?
From the link you yourself just posted (which had already been posted):
“For the record, virtually every source that covered the Unite the Right debacle concluded that it was conceived of, led by and attended by white supremacists, and that therefore Trump's characterization was wrong.“
Incorrect.
This was not a campaign contribution. This is a contribution to the inaugural fund. The money goes “towards,” to use your word, rich people having a bigger party. That’s it.
Is that silly? Of course it is. But it’s symbolic and harmless. And it’s smart.
Fiduciary duty applies to the intended end result of actions and behaviors. It’s incumbent upon the C-Suite and Board of any publicly traded company. If a company believes that donating money is more likely to provide a positive return on investment than not, then that’s generally speaking what they should do.
Cook donates to Trump, he did not donate to Biden. Says everything you need to know.
In the end, this is about the rich vs. everyone else.
In the end, this is about the rich vs. everyone else.
Pure corruption/bribe, not only that, Trump is undemocratic, it does not fit Apple’s mojo, unbelievable Tim degrades Apple’s vision.
So, in the end it’s all corporate crap.
So, in the end it’s all corporate crap.
Wait. Trump won with a landslide. And now all the comments are anti-Trump. This is the America you voted for: corporate greed, corruption, unregulated capitalism and favouritism. Kiss the ring or get out.
Tim didn’t become CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world without knowing how to play his part.
Tim didn’t become CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world without knowing how to play his part.
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1. Conservatives prefer people's tax money to go towards welfare and bailouts for the ultra-rich and corporations instead of healthcare and college tuition.
2. Conservatives complain about the idea of people's taxes funding college tuition, but they don't complain about people's taxes paying for wars, bank bailouts, corporate welfare, cronyism, etc.
People pay taxes, but conservatives don't want those people's taxes to fully pay for their healthcare nor their higher education. Conservatives prefer people's taxes pay for the luxury lifestyle of that welfare queen Elon Musk.
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I never said it wasn’t a no-brainer, or that I didn’t like it. I said there is no law requiring employees to spend their own money for the companies interest…an employees personal money is off limits to the publicly traded company…
You are spreading blatant falsehoods with this claim of legality.
And wow - you are so sure you know my feelings, you aren’t even reading my posts…please try to do better.