Tim Cook dinner, CEO of Apple, will personally give $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump‘s inaugural committee — the most recent transfer by a Large Tech exec to cozy as much as the incoming president.
Apple itself not anticipated to make any donations to the incoming president, in accordance with a report Friday by Axios, which first reported on Cook dinner’s deliberate million-dollar donation. “Cook dinner, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a good American custom, and is donating to the inauguration within the spirit of unity,” per Axios’s report, citing nameless sources.
Apple reps didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Cook dinner joins different tech corporations and execs which can be giving cash to Trump’s inauguration. Amazon and Meta are every giving $1 million to the president-elect’s inauguration fund, whereas OpenAI chief Sam Altman additionally plans to donate the identical quantity.
In December, Cook dinner trekked to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound to satisfy with the president-elect over dinner. Different execs who’ve made the journey to Florida to satisfy with Trump embody Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
Cook dinner additionally was among the many CEOs who congratulated Trump after he gained the 2024 U.S. presidential election. “Congratulations President Trump in your victory!” Cook dinner posted on X on Nov. 6. “We stay up for partaking with you and your administration to assist be sure that the US continues to steer with and be fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.”
Different corporations donating to Trump’s inauguration embody Toyota, Ford, GM, Goldman Sachs, Financial institution of America, and cryptocurrency exchanges Kraken and Coinbase. For Trump’s 2025 inauguration, donors who give a minimum of $1 million are being promised high-level entry to the president-elect and his internal circle with as much as “a half-dozen tickets to eight inaugural occasions” from Jan. 17-20, together with an “elegant and intimate dinner with President Donald J. Trump and Mrs. Melania Trump” on Jan. 19, the New York Instances reported.