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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 4 days ago by IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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”

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

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[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 110 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Perfectly normal, but not like this.

https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/inaug_2009.php

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

ABC News reported that Trump’s second-inauguration haul is on track to shatter the previous $107m record, as pledged contributions have already exceeded a $150m fundraising goal. Barack Obama’s inauguration raised $53m in 2009 and $42m in 2013, and Joe Biden’s raised $63m in 2021.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-vance-inaugural-committee-track-raise-record-amount/story?id=116918692

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Oh wow, this is really informative. Thanks for the link friend

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Speaking of forgetting what's perfectly normal.. the days before uniting the citizens..

Obama capped money for his inauguration at $50,000 per person - still, more than 10 times what individuals could give to his campaign.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only since Citizens United.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you’re thinking of FECA probably. inauguration vs campaign funds are different things, and Citizens United was about campaign funds.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

It certainly has a FECAl smell about it.