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Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Attend Trump Inauguration

Dwalls90 said:
Agreed lobbying is a huge problem. Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit, and the respective case that paved the way for lobbying is a cancer on this country.

There was an article that summarized inauguration contributions by the same big tech companies in 2017, 2021 and 2025 (sorry, can't find the link right now). 2025 blew both prior inaugurations out of the water. So while this is more of the same issue, it is also much worse in magnitude. Passing it off as "always operated like this" is factually incorrect.

Democracy does not die overnight, meaning we can probably all agree it wasn't fully present when Biden was president, but it's very obvious that Trump's presidency is not a step in the right direction.
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Very thoughtfully put! Shame more political discourse can't be as civilized as it is on a truck enthusiast website.
 
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I get the lobbying, and donation to the inaugural is just petty, but hey be the suck-up!!! but really you don’t need to attend the inauguration…

I’ll be curious to see what money donations are when a dem gets into office.

I’d have corporate policy that one donated X no matter which candidate wins personally
 
Chungry said:
The way things are going he could be in for 8 years from this point. Which is wild. And he could have served two terms and been out the door right now but with all the shady stuff that took place in the 2020 election and now this year that shortfall of tens of millions of voters... It's easy to draw conclusions. I think the system was thinking too short term and shot itself in the foot with the shenanigans in 2020. And here we are.
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With that BMI he won’t be alive for the 4 years let alone 8.
 
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He needs to Trump in order to put the EU in check and to control tariffs on the Chinese made products. I suspect the EU will be rethinking the absurd penalties and fines they are trying to assess American companies.
 
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gsurf123 said:
He needs to Trump in order to put the EU in check and to control tariffs on the Chinese made products. I suspect the EU will be rethinking the absurd penalties and fines they are trying to assess American companies.
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I’m actually not aware of said EU penalties - can you please help me understand?
 
I stopped reading/watching "news".

PoliticalWire.com ? I have stopped going. Haven't visited the site in more than a week now. It's like quitting an addiction.

X? Deleted.
Threads? Deleted.
Tik Tok / Instagram vertical videos? Deleted.

Drudge Report? No longer go.

CNN? Don't watch anymore.

I don't want to see his face. I don't want to hear his voice.

Constantly watching "news" and being outraged at all the crap he is doing is just not healthy. He and his supporters thrive on trolling and saying outrageous offensive things. Best to just pay no mind.

I will go to MacRumors. I will do software development stuff.

I will read more books, and go on "news" less.

Just stop paying attention to this stuff.

Has there been any "news items" from the past 8 days? Well guess what, I have no idea what happened, and I don't want to know.

It's going to get a lot worse. Jan 20 I will be going to work, focusing on learning more software development stuff, paying attention to family, and just not checking sites or news or anything.
 
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macintologist said:
I stopped reading/watching "news".

PoliticalWire.com ? I have stopped going. Haven't visited the site in more than a week now. It's like quitting an addiction.

X? Deleted.
Threads? Deleted.
Tik Tok / Instagram vertical videos? Deleted.

Drudge Report? No longer go.

CNN? Don't watch anymore.

I don't want to see his face. I don't want to hear his voice.

Constantly watching "news" and being outraged at all the crap he is doing is just not healthy. He and his supporters thrive on trolling and saying outrageous offensive things. Best to just pay no mind.

I will go to MacRumors. I will do software development stuff.

I will read more books, and go on "news" less.

Just stop paying attention to this stuff.

Has there been any "news items" from the past 8 days? Well guess what, I have no idea what happened, and I don't want to know.

It's going to get a lot worse. Jan 20 I will be going to work, focusing on learning more software development stuff, paying attention to family, and just not checking sites or news or anything.
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You, sir, are my new favorite person. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
 
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jonnyb098 said:
That’s fat shaming…not a very liberal or inclusive position. And yet the current guy literally had to drop out because he can’t string a sentence together and his party kicked him off the ticket.
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Not everybody on the left subscribes to such nonsense.
 
MacRumors said:


Apple CEO Tim Cook will be one of several tech CEOs in attendance at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, reports Bloomberg.

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Earlier this month, Cook personally donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund, and when Trump won in November, Cook sent congratulations on social media site X. Cook also visited Mar-a-Lago in December, where he had dinner with Trump.

Tech CEOs and tech companies have been lavishing Trump with money and attention since November. Google, Amazon, Meta, Uber, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Coinbase, Toyota, Ford, GM, AT&T, and more made donations to Trump's inauguration fund, and as a result, Trump has raised $200 million.

Trump has made it clear that he plans to put new tariffs in place, and Cook is likely aiming to avoid them with an exemption. During Trump's first term, Apple was able to skirt tariffs on its the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, though it had to pay some tariffs for the Apple Watch, AirPods, and HomePod. In 2019, Trump said Cook "made a good case" that tariffs would put Apple at a disadvantage.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla's Elon Musk will also be at the inauguration.

Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.

Article Link: Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Attend Trump Inauguration
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The ass-kissing sycophancy is really nauseating.
 
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DotCom2 said:
Tim Cook's job is to keep shareholders happy. His personal feelings should not enter business dealings. He is not getting paid for that.
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And to keep shareholders happy, Cook must keep his 1+ Billion active and repeat customers happy purchasing Apple products they love... year after year after year.

Which keeps Apple being one of the most successful tech companies in the world.
 
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People still outraged over Tim's 1 mil donation which is really a gesture more than anything that can be put to use at scale, but have no issue, in fact non whatsoever, with Soros spending hundreds of millions perhaps even billions to influence elections and local politics because it perfectly aligns with lefty doctrine.

Brilliant.

...And let's leave out the tiresome identity politics canned rebuttal out of it that carries no weight. That it's a dog whistle to anti semitism when that has nothing to do with anything and no (valid) criticisms of him and his activities have anything to do with his heritage. Especially if you learn anything about the man and come to find that he hates Israel, doesn't think they have a right to sovereignty, and in fact looted from Jewish people before they were being sent off to concentration camps at a very early age and looks back on it fondly in 60 Minutes interview *as an old man adult* saying it was 'no problem, no problem at all' and 'happy making times' and 'if he didn't do it someone else would' so he has no moral stake in his actions and it is the period that 'defined him.' It makes even less sense with all that context in mind.

www.bloomberg.com

Soros Group Gives $60 Million to Super PAC That Boosts Democrats

A nonprofit founded and funded by billionaire George Soros donated $60 million in January to Democracy PAC, a super political action committee he uses to support Democrats, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com

Go ahead and call Bloomberg anti-semitic if it makes you feel better.
 
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DotCom2 said:
Tim Cook's job is to keep shareholders happy. His personal feelings should not enter business dealings. He is not getting paid for that.
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Does it go both ways though, in your estimation?

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Do shareholders benefit from Apple holding the line on DEI policies? That's Apple board decision too.

Is there a distinction when Tim uses his personal money to make a donation vs. that of the company's?
Is he not both a private citizen and also a CEO?

If he is appearing for the sake of representing good will between Apple and incoming administration ,which wouldn't be a stretch to extrapolate mind you, wouldn't that too be in the company's interests to cordially work together where possible vs. have a flagrantly hostile approach (not suggesting total collusion of private and public sector, that is what we call FASCISM actually and we've seen it transpire with Joe and FB clamping down on 'misinformation' during the pandemic that in fact turned out to be true for example)?
How many 'fight corporations!' fist-in-air lifestyle protestor people are really upgrading their devices every year and now are not because of Tim's recent actions?

Is this the final straw for him to get ejected from the company when he's driven record profits for them for over a decade and continues to?

I just have questions :D
 
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