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Trump hosts Apple CEO at Mar-a-Lago as big tech leaders continue outreach

7 points by whoitwas 2y ago

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whoitwas 2y ago
We have 2 kings now. Open bribery. Is there any way to fix it? Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration fund ... Amazon and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, confirmed this week they had each donated $1 million ...
- Terr_ 2y ago
  It'll be embezzled just like last time. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/trump-organization-inauguration-funds/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/trump-organization-i... Plus the long history of other misappropriations from charities for kids with cancer etc.
  - whoitwas 2y ago
    Obviously. "Outreach" is now bribery or extortion in double speak.
- Nathanba 2y ago
  these donations will do nothing to change Trump's mind anyway, this is happening because these tech CEOs think that Trump is a vain baffoon that can be swayed by gifts and sweet words. I'm sure to some degree it's true for anybody but Trump has often spoken out against ppl who try this on him. I still remember him talking about his dinner with Romney where he laughed about this kind of a behavior.
  - whoitwas 2y ago
    What? Imagine if they didn't pay for protection. He would attack them in public just as he did during his first term. They're paying for favorable treatment and you're wrong.
    - Nathanba 2y ago
      So no attacks from Trump against these tech companies in the future or your theory is wrong, I guess we will see if that works out for them.
      - whoitwas 2y ago
        That's not true. They're paying for favorable treatment and you're being absurd. Just as Musk paid a quarter billion to be a close advisor.
archagon 2y ago
"Your institutions will not save you." And neither will your corporations. Spineless sods.
nojvek 2y ago
The open corruption in US is disheartening. Feels like we’ll become another Russia where this gets so accepted in society, that people feel hopeless. Democracy is broken.

7 points by whoitwas 2y ago

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We have 2 kings now. Open bribery. Is there any way to fix it? Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration fund ... Amazon and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, confirmed this week they had each donated $1 million ...

Terr_ 2y ago
It'll be embezzled just like last time. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/trump-organization-inauguration-funds/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/trump-organization-i... Plus the long history of other misappropriations from charities for kids with cancer etc.
- whoitwas 2y ago
  Obviously. "Outreach" is now bribery or extortion in double speak.
Nathanba 2y ago
these donations will do nothing to change Trump's mind anyway, this is happening because these tech CEOs think that Trump is a vain baffoon that can be swayed by gifts and sweet words. I'm sure to some degree it's true for anybody but Trump has often spoken out against ppl who try this on him. I still remember him talking about his dinner with Romney where he laughed about this kind of a behavior.
- whoitwas 2y ago
  What? Imagine if they didn't pay for protection. He would attack them in public just as he did during his first term. They're paying for favorable treatment and you're wrong.
  - Nathanba 2y ago
    So no attacks from Trump against these tech companies in the future or your theory is wrong, I guess we will see if that works out for them.
    - whoitwas 2y ago
      That's not true. They're paying for favorable treatment and you're being absurd. Just as Musk paid a quarter billion to be a close advisor.

archagon 2y ago

"Your institutions will not save you." And neither will your corporations. Spineless sods.

nojvek 2y ago

The open corruption in US is disheartening. Feels like we’ll become another Russia where this gets so accepted in society, that people feel hopeless. Democracy is broken.