Apple CEO Tim Cook personally donates $1 million to President Trump’s inauguration

Apple CEO Tim Cook and U.S. President Donald Trump at tech summit in June 2017
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.”
Mike Allen for Axios:
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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.
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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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