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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Maybe he assumes it will be more impressive to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I didn't follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!? Maybe Trump makes a point out of it that it comes from them personally? Would make them personally attached to him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I didn't follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!?

Really? I've never seen a single article that said that. Even this one points out that

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.

None of these say Zuckerberg, or Bezos, etc.... (except for Sam Altman). Seems that it's companies that are the norm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's a bad headline, but I see where you were coming from.

The article does mention:

It follows news that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has already contributed $1 million to the fund. And Amazon has also promised a $1 million infusion into Trump's inauguration coffers.

So it was name dropping, but it's being done as a company, not the individual. Sam Altman is still mentioned as a single and not as a company again though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

At least those are so companies I can easily avoid. Amazon hasn't been easy since they monopolized the market but I can still usually buy from someone else. (Unless they charge for shipping and Amazon still ships same product for free at same price).