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

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-trump-inauguration-donation/

by latexr • 2 years ago

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hunglee2• 2 years ago

pay homage to the King

jjgreen• 2 years ago

So purchase of Apple hardware supports Trump now? Perhaps a rename to "The Trumpbook Pro" is in order.

explain• 2 years ago

Fantastic news.

nabla94• 2 years ago

For Biden's inauguration the top ask was $1 million for companies and $500,000 for individuals. About 12 individuals paid the $500,000 price. The total was $61.8 million. Donations came from unions as well.

Biden’s Inaugural Will Be Mostly Virtual, but Money From Donors Will Be Real https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/biden-inaugur...

Pfizer, unions, others donated $61.8 mln for Biden's inaugural https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pfizer-unions-others-donate...

Biden Inaugural Committee donors include Google, Microsoft, Boeing https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/09/biden-inaugural-don...

Personal comment: Clearly Trump takes way more, but this is only difference in quantity, not unrepresented behavior. Clearly America has money in politics problem even without Trump. Journalism not providing the context is another problem.

latexr6• 2 years ago

but this is only difference in quantity

As if that excuses anything. That reminded me of the time some country (Sweden?) with gun control had its first shooting in thirty years and the reaction in the US was “see, gun control doesn’t work”. For a large portion of things, quantity can be everything. “The Dose Makes the Poison”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

Either way, that is not the point.

Clearly America has money in politics problem

Yes, it does. And whoever you give money to reveals who you support and is an indication of your beliefs and your character. Tim Cook either supports Trump (or his ideas), cares about money above all else, or is a spineless coward. It does matter which one it is, but neither of them is good.

bdangubic3• 2 years ago

Tim Cook is a CEO and he answers to the shareholders. he does MUCH MUCH MUCH worse things to enrich his shareholders than donating measly $1m to Dementia Don :)

nabla94• 2 years ago

I feel like my comment provided a missing context that journalism rarely provides today. You seemed to interpret it as an excuse.

bediger4000• 2 years ago

It looks to me like journalists do provide context in some cases. Because the lack of context makes some people and policy look better than they would without context, it's worth trying to remember which people and policy don't get contextualized, and which do.

For example, with some context, we can't tell that particular politicians floated policy proposals that were met with widespread pushback, then disavowed the policy. Later, when the uproar dies down, the politician quietly enacts the policy. Without the context, we don't see that politician as nearly always untruthful.

By selective contextualization, particular politicians can be framed as fabulists, or framed as driven by circumstances, and therefore blameless.

archagon3• 2 years ago

The difference is that Biden did not run on a fascist platform that promised to throw tens of millions into camps and imprison his political enemies.

He was also not a twice-impeached felon who started a violent insurrection and tried to steal an election.

Trump is a far-right criminal and not in any way a normal president. He would be rotting in a prison cell (if not strapped to the electric chair) were it not for the blatant corruption of the judiciary. Instead, he’s sitting on his golden throne and soliciting bribes from groveling and pathetic tech CEOs.

MemesAndBooze• 2 years ago

Don't you think you're exaggerating a little with the hyperbolic language?

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589464

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

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