Submitted 4 days ago by IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-trump-inauguration-donation/
“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.
Meh, I was never going to buy their shitty crap anyway.
I’ve been boycotting Apple since 1997
What a little bitch…
Tim Apple*
Steves wept.
Between Tom Clancy and Steve Jobs rotational corpse energy reclamation may just save us all.
That’s probably 25% of their holiday bonus!
It’s from his own money, not that it makes things any better.
Yes, not really better at all. These donations are all symbols, not meaningful except as a show of obeisance. So we should interpret it along the same symbolic parameters.
It’s being framed as a personal donation because Cook is acquiescing to Trump’s pending authoritarian takeover, but wants plausible deniability that that imputes to Apple. But since Tim Cook is the one acquiescing and he leads Apple, it’s indistinguishable from the same thing. It carries the same message: Apple won’t get in your way, do what you will.
I guess it was that or a blow job.
You best start believing in technofeudal distopias, you’re living in one.
He’s totally not doing it to get Trumpf to like him. No no, he’s just an idiot.
Way to go, Tim Apple
Kissing the ring, like all the others
More like smooching the butt trumpet.
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.
Fuck that. Not cool.
Can’t wait for the leopard to eat this face.
corporations will always prioritize tax cuts and deregulation
This isn’t even remotely surprising. Apple has been a shitty company for well over a decade.
And before it wasn’t?
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.
Apple stopped being apple when this cuck took over.
It always was same megacorp.
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.
Yeah, these billionaires really need our sympathy. Things are pretty rough for this guy. Kinda makes me want to start a go-fund-me to help drum up some support for the poor chap.
Nah, actually he can fall into a sink hole tomorrow and slowly asphixiate while I eat my generic cheerios with slightly expired milk dripping down my grinning chin.
I’m not going to judge Tim by his intentions, I’m judging him by his actions. Did Trump solicit this bribe or did Tim preemptively do it?
Doesn’t matter. He did it.
Pull up Tim’s statements from the lead up to the first Trump election—before Trump held the office, the tone was different. After the election, Tim knew he needed to maintain a seat at the table, now he is absolutely being forced into public “offerings” to the new king.
I’m sure being forced to play by Trump’s mafia rules bothers Tim, but he knows taking the high ground could have negative effects which would (hopefully) outlast any presidential administration.
It really isn’t any different from the Mom and Pop shop scenario—I’m not going to blame Mom and Pop for “supporting” the mafia.
web.archive.org/…/bdb4ce9e-d66d-11e4-ba28-f2a685d…
buzzfeednews.com/…/apple-wont-be-funding-the-repu…
reuters.com/…/apples-cook-says-he-disagrees-with-…
cbsnews.com/…/apples-tim-cook-pens-letter-disagre…
Not much to do about it. But fuck him.
Nope. Sorry. I don’t feel bad for members of the modern Association of German National Jews.
Extortion, more like
Ohh shocking!! A US company CEO invested to the inagural fund of the new president elected by the people (idiots).
Not a good move tim
Xatolos@reddthat.com 3 days ago
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?
darkfyre@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe he assumes it will be more impressive to Trump.
AAA@feddit.org 3 days ago
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.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Really? I’ve never seen a single article that said that. Even this one points out that
None of these say Zuckerberg, or Bezos, etc… (except for Sam Altman). Seems that it’s companies that are the norm.