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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
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Being a drug addict otherwise legally in possession of a weapon is not something anyone should go to prison over as a first offense. Meanwhile Trump is so corrupt that his lawyers are in prison. That's not normal. Talking about this stuff does not make his critics "deranged" as charged–it makes us adults.
It’s really disappointing to see the number of people celebrating being two-faced in the name of “Business”
That’s a big thing wrong with the country right now
Zero integrity
That’s a big thing wrong with the country right now
Zero integrity
You clearly don’t understand how business works.
Plenty of companies have “integrity”…it’s just fake. Always has been. And anyone telling you otherwise is lying.
Unfortunate but true.
Trump is so corrupt that anything he touches is corrupted quite quickly.
Cook is doing what CEOs do - buying influence with all the people necessesary. Cook did it with Xi, now doing it with Trump. Recently Apple was extorted by Indonesia.
The list goes on.
Money makes the world go 'round.
After trying to tar, feather, sue , lock up the guy….he still won. That says a lot. People are fed up with what’s going on in this country….from woke…to terrible inflation crippling peoples ability to feed their family, save money, buy a home, etc etc etc.
Seriously, get a grip…read the room. People are done with with happened the last 4 years in the US. Home prices are up 30-80 percent. The essentials are up 20 percent. And wages barely moved. Think about that. If you’re cool with that then good for you. The celebrities telling you otherwise have had ZERO impact from the economic disaster.
I have no doubt that a large part of these "Inaugural donations" are to pay people to just show up for the Inaugural, so it's more than half-full like in 2018. The stand-ins wearing Apple coats and hats, well you'll know where timmy's donation went to.
One on hand, this is almost certainly the saddest thing Tim has ever had to do for Apple and it is infuriating. On the other hand, we have a thief about to be President and unless Tim wants to see insane tariffs on almost all Apple products, this is the price of business.
It is appalling.
It is appalling.
Your post is simply incorrect. That’s why it’s hard for you to comprehend this. Once you go back and look at Trump’s history, policy, and FULL quotes (not sound bites), you’ll realize that what you said is simply incorrect, factually. Then it won’t be so difficult to fathom why Cook could donate to Trump.
You might be correct about a lot what you say, but that this country elected the most unqualified creature to walk the earth is what eats at most of his opponents. You would not see this level vitriol if a Mitt Romney type Republican won the White House.
Oh...and on inflation: Check when Trump in his first term got OPEC nations to cut production and you'll see the start of the inflationary spike that got us here. And ironically, the infamous skyrocketing price of eggs had nothing to do with Trump, Biden, oil, Covid, supply lines, etc... it was bird flu. Almost 100 million egg laying hens and other poultry was culled since February 2022. That is was caused the price of eggs to skyrocket.
Well people are upset because Apple has been Virtue signalling for the longest time.
Biden was senile the day he took office. The press covered up for him all the way until that disastrous debate performance in June.
I'm not a huge fan of Tim, but this was a step above. People could say he did this to get on Trump's good side and $1m may fetch him a favor down the road, but it's still a million dollars of his own money. I think it's probably his way of saying, "I may not like you a lot, but you're the POTUS and I respect you, and we need to get along if we're going to improve our situation". That took some gumption and there will be some major backlash for the Trump haters.
America elected a President that can be bribed and who expects to receive bribes. Tim is just playing the game that has been set up for him.
Trump is the "most unqualified creature to walk the earth" to be president? Let's tone down the hyperbole. Man is literally a billionaire. His father's Brooklyn based business is now an international empire. Love Trump or not, you gotta be real here.
That's exactly the problem. That's precisely why people voted for Trump, myself included. The Mitt Romneys, Nancy Pelosis, Mitch McConnells of the world are the problem. These clowns that do nothing year in, year out, and stay in office are part the same team behind the scenes. The R and D label is mere lip service, at the expense of you and me. We pay their salaries. This is a rejection of THEM.
And the same man bankrupted what? 6 businesses.
How do you even bankrupt a casino?
So his business acumen isn’t exactly screaming brilliance here.
Such is good business, something that many people here cannot and will never understand.
People get hung up on the bankruptcies while ignoring his current net worth is $5.5 Billion dollars. What is your net worth?
I’ll get back to you on that when my dad’s a billionaire.
If you wanna know how much of that has an impact on a kid’s success, read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
According to various sources, Trump has owned or had significant stakes in over 500 companies.
6 failed.
Try again.
That wasn't a good comeback. The story of the family fortune squandered by the spoiled son who inherited it is a tale as old as time. That wasn't the story of Donald, though.
You just gotta call it what it is man. I don't care if you like Trump. I don't care if Trump likes me. He doesn't even know my name. I have no honor to defend here. But you gotta be real here about Trump's success.
For example, I'm not a huge fan of Tim Cook, but I'm not stupid enough to say he's a bad CEO. Look at Apple's stock price.
How many of those do you even know without the help of so called sources?
You can’t name more than a handful I’ll bet. Not very indicative of success.
Slapping his father’s name on buildings is the only business of his most are even aware of.
What a lot of ********. Trump has a history of support for gay people going back to at least the 90s, he publicly expressed positively on TV. Biden, on the other hand, has a long history of being against gay rights, including marriage equality which he famously opposed.
He's protecting the interests of Apple who employs tens/hundreds of thousands of people.