Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

Didn't trump call him Tim Apple?

Pathetic thinly veiled bribe

Imagine being a woman working for Apple and having a CEO who funds a rapist.

I’ll defend Apple as being the least shitty of the big tech giants but I can’t defend this.

Why would you do that though? The only thing I'm aware of that they do even remotely better than anyone else is privacy. But it's not that much better, and it comes at the cost of gestures at everything else

Why does such a thing as an inaugural fund exist? Seems like it's just to facilitate more corruption!

As a Bi man there is something that particularly stings about a well known, openly gay CEO funding a man who is hateful towards LGBTQ+ people. I never really liked him nor apple but it is an extra fuck you.

Being rich is ultimately the disease as it compels him to appeal to power but I hope the last things hears is "Told you I would kill you last".

What the fucking, fuck.

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.

It really is a class war, not a culture war.

These CEOs are funding hate, violence and the end of American democracy - they have enough power, money and influence to oppose, yet they don't. They decided that a few must be sacrificed for the greater good profit.

Something happened on the 4th of December. Today is the 4th of January. Just in case anyone's calendar app is stuck closed. Interesting if true...

They're being shaken down. Same as Mark Zuckerberg being summoned to a meeting with Trump and the next day paying $1m to the same fund.

I'm betting these meetings went something like, "You don't want a president as an enemy, do you? Cough up."

And don't think of it as a tax on the rich - it's not going towards the benefit of the American people. It's extortion.

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.

Gross. Sick of rich assholes enabling the fascist.

This country makes me sick to my stomach. What a fucking joke.

Fuck Tim Apple

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.

Absolutely disgusting

It's not going to make him remember your actual name, Tim.

You'll always be Tim Apple to him.

A rich white cis gay man backstabbing trans people?

This never happens, I'm shocked!

Tim Cook is hoping to be spared when Trump starts purging gay people.

Paying largesse/protection money.

Paying his tribute to the king. He'll have to donate more if he wants to usurp Elon. How much has Zuck donated?

They’re all “donating” the same amount.

And also this is the largest inaugural fund in history. In comparison to his previous which was $107m this is so far over $150m.

Considering Bidens and both of Obamas were between $50m and $70m is this not ringing alarm bells with anyone? Or is this something to “look” in to in like 7 years time when no one gives a shit.

Beggars belief.

The personal donation part is weird. This sounds like a deliberate attempt to appease the fascists while trying, desperately, to maintain Apple's image.

It's less than .05% of his worth. It's like us dropping pocket change in the Red Cross bucket and he'll make more than that in profit from changes the bribe paid for from the great cheetoh.

It’s time to boycott Apple

Meh, I was never going to buy their shitty crap anyway.

I guess it was that or a blow job.

I’ll defend Apple as being the least shitty of the big tech giants but I can’t defend this.

You can defend settler colonialism?

least shitty

Wat!?

$1 million seems to be the going fealty price for these people.

Tim Apple*

What I'm curious about is, according to the article, Tim Apple is donating from this own money and won't be donating Apple's money. Why make it a personal donation and not a corporate one?

While others are donating as companies (don't agree with this either but different subject), none are doing it as a personal donation. As the face of Apple, he won't get far claiming that it doesn't reflect Apple as a company, so why not just m make it corporate? Unless it's for tax reasons?

Steves wept.

Between Tom Clancy and Steve Jobs rotational corpse energy reclamation may just save us all.

iClass-traitor.

Typical CEO tribute to the newly crowned King of the United States for some tariff exemptions.

What a little bitch..

You best start believing in technofeudal distopias, you're living in one.

That's probably 2% of their holiday bonus!

He's totally not doing it to get Trumpf to like him. He's gonna get his own imaginary political role.

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

Kissing the ring, like all the others

This isn't even remotely surprising. Apple has been a shitty company for well over a decade.

Apple stopped being apple when this cuck took over.

corporations will always prioritize tax cuts and deregulation

Fuck that. Not cool.

I can’t help but wonder if this is to take the news spotlight away from the Siri recording scandal that just popped up

God neoliberals are pathetic.

Whoa, he got the rich to pay taxes.
Not government taxes tho.

I feel bad for Tim.

He made a point during the first Trump administration that having a seat at the table is better than not.

This time around, it seems his first compromise is making a public “pay to play” donation to Trump, while keeping Apple itself out of the audit trail.

I am positive this is the last thing he wants to do, and is doing his best to protect the interests of his company while taking all the shrapnel from people explosively decrying his “bent knee” to this “Con-man in Chief”.

I blame Trump’s mafia tactics more than anything else. As hard as it is to compare a nearly $4-trillion company to mom and pop shop, this feels just like the local mafia shaking down small shops for protection money.

Again, I feel bad for Tim.

Ohh shocking!! A US company CEO donated to the inagural fund of the new president elected by the people (idiots).