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.”
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. 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 We are currently about 1/4th of the way to being sustainable with Substack subscriptions. Please tell your Apple-loving friends about MacDailyNews on Substack and, if you’re currently a free subscriber, please consider $5/mo. or $50/year to keep MacDailyNews going. Just hit the subscribe button. Thank you! You're currently a free subscriber to MacDailyNews. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook personally donates $1 million to President Trump’s inauguration
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