Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, Axios reports citing sources with knowledge of the donation.”
The donation reflects a long, collaborative relationship between Trump and Cook that included many meetings during Trump’s first term, and dinner at Mar-a-Lago last month.
Other CEOs and companies have made seven-figure inauguration contributions in their efforts to build bridges to the incoming administration.
Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity, the sources said. The company is not expected to give.
Cook also has met with Trump at Trump Tower and at his club in Bedminster, N.J.
According to The New York Times, President Trump’s second inauguration fund, which includes his political operation and eventually his presidential library, has so far received over $200 million in donations, more than doubling the previous U.S. presidential inauguration record.
OpenAI, Amazon, Meta, Uber (and, separately, its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi), Robinhood, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are among the many inaugural fund donors.
MacDailyNews Take: Cook’s $1 million personal donation to President Trump’s second inauguration is the least he could do.
Cook infamously, in a 2017 hissy fit over fake news*, gave $1 million of Apple’s — not his personal — money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been called a “con” for “bilking gullible liberals”. The company also matched two-for-one employees’ donations to the SPLC through September 30th of that year and even had Apple’s iTunes Store offer visitors a way to donate to the SPLC.
*In a typically sanctimonious letter to Apple employees at the time, Cook wrongly claimed that President Trump made “a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis,’ a claim that even the left-leaning Snopes has since rated as “FALSE.”
In addition to personally donating $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, Cook should personally reimburse Apple Inc. the $1 million that he stupidly and embarrassingly gave to the SPLC in a 2017 knee-jerk hissy fit over fake news, with interest, and issue public apologies to Apple shareholders and President Trump.
Read more, including our Take (behind which we stand 100%): Apple-backed Southern Poverty Law Center wracked in turmoil, called a ‘con’ for ‘bilking gullible liberals’ – March 24, 2019
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MDN was right then and is right now, as usual.
Cook is a clown. Always has been.
Money doesn’t talk, it swears. And I don’t care who you are, giving Trump anything from a dime to the time of day makes you a whore.
Someday, I hope, Apple will get a real CEO again. One who’s focused on the company, not MSNBC, and who doesn’t miss paradigm shifts like generative AI because he’s preoccupied with wrongheaded socialism and who regurgitates bald-faced lies.
Just a multi-millionaire giving a convicted felon a monetary reach around.
“Convicted felon.”
You’re not too bright, bless your heart.
Listen sh!tstain, the Orange turd is a convicted felon and will forever be known as one as long as history is recorded. You brazen ignorance cannot change this fact.
Original Mac User,
“You’re not too bright, bless your heart” is a nice way of saying that you are a fscking idiot.
I told you in June, well before the election, that your corrupt “felon” charge wasn’t working for you. Even after the landslide results, you’re still so stupid that you think a sham verdict, that will be overturned on appeal, matters to anyone with a brain.
“Convicted felon. Convicted felon. Convicted felon.”
Keep saying it, Dems, it’s working so well for you!
Since the sham NYC verdict, President Trump has raised $400 million (and counting). – TruthDetector, June 7, 2024
But he IS a convicted felon.
Todd,
Yer not very brite, are ya?
Yup. You’re right. Keep saying it. More, please!
Never stop indicting yourself and your ilk.
Yet another fscking libturd.
By all means keep going with the “convicted felon” routine, genius. That ruse worked so well for you last election! We could use bigger majorities going forward.
Of course, this did not work out as many hoped. That apparently includes President Biden. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Biden was irate over the Justice Department’s failure to prosecute Trump more quickly to secure a conviction before the election. He also reportedly regretted his appointment of Attorney General Merrick Garland as insufficiently aggressive in pursuing Trump. It appears Garland was not sufficiently Bragg-like for Biden’s lawfare tastes.
The sentencing, however, will have another impact. Trump will finally be able to appeal this horrendous case. It has always been a target-rich opportunity for appeal, but Trump could not launch a comprehensive appeal until after he was sentenced.
Those appellate issues include charges based on a novel criminal theory through which New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg not only zapped a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but based a state charge on federal election law and federal taxation violations. So, after the Justice Department declined to prosecute federal violations, Bragg effectively did so in state court with Merchan’s blessing.
The issues also include Merchan’s absurd instructions to the jury. The novel theory demanded a secondary offense, the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal by listing payments as legal expenses. Merchan allowed the jury to find that the secondary offense was any of an array of vaguely defined options. Even on the jury form, they did not have to specify which crimes were found. Merchan did not require even a majority, let alone a unanimous jury, to agree on what actually occurred.
Under Merchan’s instruction, the jury could have split four-four-four on whether this was all done to conceal a federal election violation, falsification of business records or taxation violations. Neither Trump nor the public will ever know.
Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) recently put it more simply and called the case total “b—s–t.”
While expectations are not great for the New York legal system itself, this case will eventually go to the United States Supreme Court.
Of course, like so much else in the vortex of Merchan’s courtroom, the final leave to appeal comes at a cost. While Merchan admits begrudgingly that incarceration is no longer “practical,” Trump will now have to appeal this case over the course of his presidency.
When the sentence is imposed on Jan. 10, it is likely to feel comically downsized given the effort. After years and millions spent in the various Trump cases, Trump will likely receive an unconditional discharge and sent along his way . . . to the White House.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/06/the-trump-sentencing-curtain-to-fall-on-merchans-hamlet-on-the-hudson/
The depth of libturd stupidy is staggering
Convicted of a non crime, and through Biden AG law fare. All of the criminal trials were completely bogus BS and anyone with a brain (Definitely not you) can see that. People like you were happy that the dems tried any and everything to keep him out of the race, and you lost, now go back in your hole, and come out when you get some common sense.
I, for one, am quite pleased with Mr. Cook’s earnest devotion to developing and maintaining a cutting-edge emoji collection. As well, history will show him to be a (maybe THE) vanguard for the motion-emoji movement.
So creative! So expressive! Who needs a new car with these!
This is exactly why I’d rather have ads than give one cent to macdailynews because they put their foot into politics and that goes for both sides of politics. And just for the record I’ve been a MDN contributor since the early 2000s.
Now you can bump me down as you always do when contributors call your out.
To think that the largest company in THE WORLD isn’t going to intermingle with things critical in the political realm and be newsworthy, is beyond idyllic imagining.
Besides, the interaction (collusion) of Big Tech with our government–in the last 4 yrs, especially, has been a singular reason daily Mac news might include such a report.