Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal 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.
What's funny (or sad) is that 100 years from now this will be looked at the same was as when Ford or IBM supported the Nazis. Their business won't hurt long term and Tim Apple will be long dead.
IG Farben, Krupp, Thyssen, Boss, Porsche and the list goes on and on and on. Fuck I suspect that even my own grandfather "had stripes" (slang for collaboration with Nazis without yourself being proclaimed nazi) and he even fought them during the invasion of Norway.
He should just be honest and said "this $1m is a mandatory payment to trump so that he exempts Apple from tariffs, no other reason", of course, then it's an obvious quid pro quo.